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One-on-One

Your questions answered by football's biggest legends

Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp

"I'm f***ing chasing round the garden for four hours. I don't want to pick up a seagull – f*** that. It might peck me or do any f***ing thing."

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Eusebio

"A lot of goalkeepers congratulated me when I scored goals against them"
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Rafael Benitez

"My relationship with Fergie was good until we started to compete with them – then everything changed"
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Neil Warnock

"Who was I most like as a player? Ronaldinho, only without the skill"
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Gary Speed

"My proudest moment was captaining Wales. It’s something I always look back on with immense pride"
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Andy Cole

"I'm sure the Newcastle fan with a tattoo of me regrets it!"
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Stuart Pearce

"I think I'll be remembered as someone who played hard but fair... maybe hard and not fair at times, but I'll live with that"
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Chris Kamara

"Graham Taylor called me up for an England friendly behind closed doors. I thought it was a wind-up!"
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Claudio Ranieri

"When it comes to using a meat knife, I can do everything. My players have to watch out or I will come into the dressing room and kill them"
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Gus Poyet

"I'd love my own radio show, although I think I'd need a six-hour slot, daily!"
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Jurgen Klinsmann

"I think that there’s a lot of similar things between English and German people, but neither side wants to admit it"
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Sam Allardyce

"My ambitions? To win the Champions League, the Premier League and to be England coach"
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Matt Le Tissier

"I can get some long words on Countdown. I don't think Merse would accept an invitation to go on - he knows his limitations"
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Dennis Bergkamp

"We really should have won the World Cup in 1998. We were the best team. France didn't want to play us in the final"
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Paul McGrath

"I don’t know how he did it, but the next morning Alex Ferguson knew exactly the pubs I’d been to"
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Mick McCarthy

"The only thing I remember about Lyon is the players telling me I spoke French like a Spanish cow"
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Jamie Carragher

"Wayne said he has trouble understanding me? That's rich coming from Rooney – he can hardly do an interview!"
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Steve McManaman

"Roberto Carlos is deformed, isn't he? Two of my thighs stuck together would make one of his"
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Franco Baresi

"An Italian in charge of the English national side? England calling an Italian? Nobody ever expected that..."
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Luis Figo

"When you are 22 and you face a challenge like Barcelona, you never think about who you’re going to replace..."
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Ryan Giggs

"I had a stalker when I first got into the team. I was in good company, actually – she stalked Ayrton Senna and Michael Jackson as well"
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Terry Butcher

"Graeme Souness? I'd probably get the first punch in, then he'd take the cartilage out of my knee"
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Ronaldo

"At the 2002 World Cup we had the best team I ever played in. Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Cafu... and me"
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Gary & Phil Neville

"I threw a gun at you once and cut your eye, do you remember?" "Er, no"
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Kenny Dalglish

"Leaving Liverpool was the first time I made a decision that was more in my interests than the club's"
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Robert Pires

"Domenech was right: I’m a Scorpio, I had his wife, and I’m a bad man..."
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Franciso Varallo

"I’m responsible for installing the professional era in Argentina..."
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Faustino Asprilla

"The women were divine. I don’t know how many girlfriends I had in Newcastle. At the beginning I didn’t even understand what they said"
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Roberto Carlos

"Ronaldo's parties? I'll invite you to one of mine and then you'll see what a real party is"
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David James

"Liverpool spoilt the illusion I could break records"
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Thierry Henry

"The strangest thing about England? Ketchup..."
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David Beckham

"Have I ever eaten bulls' testicles? No. But I have eaten bulls’ ears..."
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Michael Owen

"Madrid felt Liverpool weren’t matching their valuation of me and I thought it would be good to go to Newcastle"
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Gianfranco Zola

"I took Asprilla fishing once. He broke my fishing rods and made a big mess in my boat."
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Sven-Goran Eriksson

"My longest ski jump? Probably around 65 metres..."
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Nicolas Anelka

"Tips for picking up women? I haven’t really got any tips because I’m a footballer, which makes things easier with the girls..."
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George Best

"I would have loved to have played in the World Cup, but only for a Northern Ireland or even a Great Britain side."
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John Fashanu

"I came down to Millwall with Lincoln City once and bashed the hell out of their defence...then I signed for them."
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Paul Gascoigne

"I reckon Sir Alex Ferguson would have taken me by the balls. Just like Vinnie"
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Arsene Wenger

"Food is like kerosene. If you put the wrong one in your car, it’s not as quick as it should be"
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Ian Holloway

"That’s a bit harsh, you bastard!"
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Paolo Di Canio

"The craziest person I've come across? Let me tell you about John Moncur..."
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Ian Wright

"If I’d seen Uri Geller afterwards and he’d said that, I’d have knocked him out."
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Michel Platini

"There are three important things in my life: my family, my friends, and having a good laugh..."
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Les Ferdinand

"I’d travel up in the helicopter on the Monday, stay all week and fly back on the weekend..."
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Ossie Ardiles

"I’ve never had the tune from Ossie’s Dream as the ringtone on my phone."
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Pele

"If I had to write my whole name, it would take a day"
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Kevin Keegan

"There are lots of kids called Keegan. I’ve met many of them. Lots of dogs too..."
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Mark Hughes

"There was a comic called Sparky, it rhymed with Mark, so I picked that. It wasn’t because I was a frustrated electrician or anything..."
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Eric Cantona

"There’s a fine line between freedom and chaos. To some extent I am an anarchist..."
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Marcel Desailly

"In 1996, I signed a pre-contract agreement with Manchester United..."
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Glenn Hoddle

"I don’t mean this in a big-headed way, because I wasn’t a great goalscorer, but I scored great goals"
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Chris Waddle

"I worked in a sausage factory, so if I was playing badly I was having a ‘Banger’ or if I was playing well, I was ‘Sizzling’..."
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Simon Jordan

“It’s fair to say that a fair proportion of them are tossers, but I am pretty sure they think the same thing about me..."
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Dave Mackay

"He was a brilliant little player but a dirty little bastard. He kicked me in the leg I’d just come back from breaking twice..."
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Barry Fry

"I was a very passionate manager and you were either worth £10 million or you weren’t worth two-f**king-bob..."
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Bobby Robson

"What's a nice expression for cock-up? Let's just say it was a huge faux pas..."
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