Steven Gerrard Players Quotations

I'm shocked, looking at the players that have won this award in the past and some of the unbelievable players involved last year,

I think we know the manager really well now, we've worked with him for a long time. We know he's desperate to win this World Cup and I don't think the relationship with the players has been affected by what's happened recently.

It's really good for English football when teams do well. Arsenal have definitely got the players to go all the way if they keep Thierry Henry and their match-winners fit.

There's a lot of confidence in the squad, a lot of togetherness and we're ready for this World Cup. We've got a lot of hungry players. And it could be a lot of players' last World Cup as well, so it's important that this group of players -- there's so much quality there -- and we need to deliver in the summer.

We slipped up badly against Northern Ireland and this group of players wants to put a run of winning games together. We want to win this group. We are a bunch of winners and want to finish first.

All the players like Sven. I think he's done very well. I think they players will try that extra bit harder to send him off on a good note.