Joe Cole On His First Day At LOSC Lille

“I hated language, I was dreadful at French, I just remembered how to say ‘I love dogs’ and what I thought was ‘I love cats’.

“I’ve walked into the dressing room and this Belgium fella Jeff’s gone, ‘Hello, welcome to Joe, what do you know in French?’.

“I said ‘I love dogs & I love cats.’ What I actually said was ‘I love p’. So I’m walking around the dressing room of Hazard, Payet etc. going ‘Morning lads, I love p’.”