Paul Merson quotes:

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

The best player I ever played against was Paolo Maldini. We [Arsenal] played against Milan in the European Supercup [in 1995]. Maldini marked me and I didn't even get a kick of the ball all game. He was just unbelievable,

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he's gone to Portsmouth and he's a fish up a tree

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Goals dictate how matches go.

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas'

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long

Everton are literally a bag of Revells.

Confidence is a horrible thing

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

Football's all about yesterday, it's all about now

It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air

Paul Lambert has learned Fabian Delph the game.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans

You can't bite your nose off to spite your face.