Adrenaline

Okay, you take the free kicks in training, and I’ll take them during the match.’

There’s something Vujadin Boškov used to say that’s become notorious: ‘If a man chooses his woman over a cold beer and the Champions League final, it may be true love, but he’s not a true man.’

No, that makes him a true man.

Pour it into your game instead. Put more of your anger into your football and you’ll see: you’ll wind up enjoying your revenge against the players who work to get under your skin, instead of getting yourself sent off.

According to my philosophy, this is perfection: being yourself.

In our house in Sweden not a single photograph of me playing football can be seen – not a trophy, nothing. In my children’s home only their father lives, not the footballer, because this is our haven, our refuge

when someone hates you, you know they hate you; when someone loves you, you can never tell if it’s true love.