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The best thing about playing football is making fans happy. The supporters help us a lot out on the pitch.

Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

The fans know their football, you can't kid them.

Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

Football has to work really hard to put a smile on people's face and not to be so focused on the question of money. Everything is in danger of losing its soul if you're always going to sell out to the highest bidder.

I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.