He'll have specific ideas on what's going wrong and what's needed to put it right, but coaching is knowing how to take a session - and Alan doesn't have that yet because he's never done it before.

BBC: Alan Hansen's column

It will go down under the heading of 'things you wish you had never said' - alongside Alan Hansen's 'you don't win anything with kids' comment on Match of the Day eight years ago.

BBC: Wenger's word games backfire

All told, Britain's economic performance didn't improve markedly post-Thatcher, says Alan Booth, an economic historian at the University of Exeter.

WSJ: Thatcher's Economic Overhauls Still Debated