Alan Hansen
Alan Hansen
Alan David Hansenis a Scottish former football player and BBC television football pundit. He played as a central defender for Partick Thistle, for the successful Liverpool team of the late 70s and 80s, and for Scotland. As a football pundit, Hansen is known for his outspoken views, particularly on team's defensive performances, frequently criticising what he believed was "diabolical" or "shocking" defending. He made his name as a pundit on Match of the Day from 1992 to 2014...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth13 June 1955
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.
When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!
People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.