Q & A

Footy's biggest stars in the hotseat

Joey Barton

Joey Barton

“They were right to call me a thug in the papers”

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Fabio Capello

"Wherever you go, you have to be absolutely convinced about your vision of football"
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Steven Gerrard

"We weren’t consistent enough over the whole campaign. With the players we’ve got, we should have not just qualified, but won the group."
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Fernando Torres

“Now, this is a real football club”
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Samuel Eto'o

"Out of every 100 stones that you throw you never know which one will kill the bird"
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Fabio Cannavaro

"It's not a nice feeling when the media goes on more about Zidane than the fact we'd won the World Cup"
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Wayne Rooney

"Jamie Carragher? I can just about understand him myself, so I don’t know what it’s like for Liverpool’s foreign players..."
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Lennart Johansson

"People have said that Platini is the FIFA president’s puppet, but I think Blatter may have made a rod for his own back"
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Cesc Fabregas

"If I get something wrong, if I play badly, if I fail, I like people to have a go at me for it"
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Ruud Van Nistelrooy

"Rooney? I haven’t seen a young player as good as he is"
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Kaka

"I think it was God – he saved me from something worse.”
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Cristiano Ronaldo

“Everyone does what he has to do for his country and I did what I had to do.”
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Gianluigi Buffon

"I was a striker until I was 13, then one day I was asked to go in goal and four years later I was playing in Serie A..."
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