Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

If you're going to be champions you've got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

If you're scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.

It's very difficult, when you're in and out of the team as a player, to get any sort of rhythm.

You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.

The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

Benteke is a threat when he's fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.

I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give an opinion based on my experiences in football and based on what I see out on the pitch.

If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.

Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.

If you win the Premier League it means you have managed the difficult moments of the season better than anyone else.

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.

I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

For a lot of lads, they grow up going to matches with fathers or mates. Those Saturday or Sundays where you head over to the stadium probably with a scarf on - knowing every word, every clap and every pause to the supporters' chants.

Whatever happens will happen, that's the rollercoaster of life. What matters is how you handle the slumps.