"Once you have a blot on your CV people are always asking questions. I have to accept that Man City is my blot."
"I thought I had made a brave decision because I knew it wasn't right for me. I was there six weeks then, bump, got out. There wasn't any damage to anybody.
"But there are people who are going to make a judgment about me because of that. I had people parked outside my house for weeks. I was told later that they checked the AIDS clinics in New York because I said I was going to go to America for a week. I was supposed to have had an affair with the left-back, whose name escapes me. Everyone thought it was not as simple as it was made out to be. But it was."