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I have a tremendous respect to all French Federation of Football football teams, players, and supporters.

Barca are a great team that play fantastic football.

I always love football, but of course it's good when you win and the team is doing well.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football.

Joy is important in life, not just football. Joy is being serious and professional, too. Joy can be reaching your potential by training hard and being disciplined. Joy can be following the rules you need to follow.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.

I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play in defence, if I play as a striker.

Football is a great way for me to catch up with my sons, and to let off some steam from my professional life.

Football should be a game for all, so why are football magazines in the 'men's lifestyle' section of the news stands?

Tommy Smith was the hardman of football at Liverpool, yet after a load of cortisone injections and repeatedly playing on through injuries he now needs a walking stick.

At even the youngest age level, football is becoming a factory production line.

As a kid I spent hours poring over football annuals, obsessing over clean-sheets records, attendances and county-league statistics. But data is a complicated business. Statistics are meant to be absolute, but once you start asking how they have been collated, or what they mean, you find yourself needing not just one stat but several.

A racist will be a racist and football is a cross-section of the male population of society.

Football is a force for good so why don't more men's clubs become genuine community clubs and serve their communities regardless of gender?

Women and football have come a long way since I was at school. In those days, as far as I was concerned, football was a boys' sport and that was it. I couldn't imagine women having anything to do with it.

For a goalkeeper football is very black and white. Whereas an outfield player can risk a bad pass and expect to be covered, a goalkeeper has no margin for error. It makes us pretty pedantic and intense at times.

Right now, there are millions of pairs of football boots that people have grown out of or replaced, and we need to make sure they don't end up in landfill.

Derby games are about more than points in the league, or cup victories, they are about bragging rights that extend well beyond an afternoon of football.

I can honestly say that relegation is the single most traumatic experience you can have in a football career.

Football shouldn't feel like a job to an eight-year-old.