“But that's why the fans liked me so much. 'Cos I am one of them. If th...” — Paul Merson Quote

“But that's why the fans liked me so much. 'Cos I am one of them. If they were in one pub down the road, and there was a wine bar up that road, I'd be in the pub with the fans. That was me.”

“I've lost millions. The money's not the problem it's the sanity. You go insane. As soon as the bets on you are like 'what did I do that for?' You search and search for the bet and then you think 'why did I do it?' Then the self-worth comes in and you hate it.”

“It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football.”

“Something about the WSL is that the margins for error are very small. In the Premier League you can get away with losing a couple of games, but the women's league is so short and the leaders tend to set the bar so high that if you lose a couple of games your title hopes are over.”

“The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too.”

“My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.”