Shock and horror at Stamford Bridge

•They are just like matches, and you go flat out

•During the actual games it is as though everybody’s brains are switched off. People play by instinct, spontaneously, in the way they did when they first discovered football

•The people at Chelsea don’t control what the players eat. You can help yourself to whatever you like, drink Coke or anything

•It’s a good thing I came here when I was 27 and so haven’t been following the same diet as the rest of the players

•I have been warned about the Christmas periods in English football. They sound terrible