"I suppose when I came over here to play football I wasn't a good mixer, " he said.
"I think Wales have gone forward - I've watched Wales play some of the best football I've seen them play, " Speed told the BBC's Sport Wales programme.
"Every weekend when I was about 10 I go with him to see football and to play football and then I said, it's a good job, " remembers Assou-Ekotto.
Tottenham is a great club where I hope I can play my best football.
"At the start of the season I wasn't involved and I had to go to and play my football at Sheffield Wednesday, and I'm grateful to the manager there Brian Laws and his assistant Russ Wilcox who gave me an opportunity to go and play again , " he explained.
"I love what I'm doing, and as long as someone's daft enough to pay me to play football why should I knock it back, " joked the veteran defender.
"He wants to go and play football and I for one totally understand that, " said goalkeeping coach Alec Chamberlain.
First of all, I like the stoppage of play in football.
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Football was the last thing on my mind, and it wasn't until a few months before I was actually being released from prison that I thought about possibly trying to play football again.
"We didn't play our best football and I was disappointed we kept turning the ball over, " manager Russell Slade said.
When I got the opportunity to play a contact sport that wasn't as violent as football, I got the best of both worlds: my parents got a sport that wasn't as violent as football, and I got to hit people.
"I think football has a particular part to play because of the totemic significance of the Christmas truce in 1914, " he said.
"I like to play a three-man midfield and play football through midfield, so to suddenly be down a number of players in midfield is a huge problem, " added Gannon.
"I would like to congratulate the Russians, who really play joyful football, " he said.
I'm perfectly happy and there is no reason to play my football anywhere else.
"I had to watch my class go on and receive scholarships and play collegiate football on a high level, " he said.
Believe me, the same worries mulled over by Obama were addressed in my house before my wife, also a big fan of the 1985 Bears, and I gave the OK for our 15-year-old to play high school football (he had never played tackle football before in an organized way).
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I'm responsible for the behaviour of my team on the pitch and the way we play football.
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"Sir Alex told me I needed to go on loan more to play and I wanted to go as well, " Bellion said of his departure from English football.
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