Last night Dan Petrescu took part in our third Star on Stool event at Stamford Bridge and fielded questions from True Blues keen to get the low-down on the Romanian's career with the club.

Jason Cundy hosted the evening and asked the questions on behalf of the fans, who also had the chance to hear from old boys Clive Walker and Ken Monkou after Petrescu's stint on-stage.

Here is what went on during Petrescu's question and answer session.

DP: First of all I would like to say that I am very happy to be back here. Every time that I come back I have a special feeling. I had the best five years of my life here and every time I come here it feels like home.

JC: How did you join Chelsea, how did it come about, and what are you doing now?

DP: At the moment I am a manager in Romania in the Premier League there, I started managing five years ago and I find it quite difficult to be a manager.

I think it was much better when I was playing, I think every manager will feel the same. It is not easy to work with 27 players and make everyone happy. But I am doing a good job, I am happy to be sitting on the grass; I am not a man to be in the office.

I was playing for Sheffield Wednesday when I came to England and I heard that Glenn Hoddle was interested in buying me and it was the goalkeeping coach at the time who asked me and my agent if I would be happy to come to Chelsea.

To be fair, at the time, I did not know too much about Chelsea. I know that Glenn Hoddle was a manager and a fantastic player, and I knew that Chelsea was in London!

JC: What are your fondest memories of playing for Chelsea?

DP: It is a difficult question because there are so many. Maybe the first one is the first FA Cup Final, because any player, who comes to England, especially from my country, would love to play in a Cup Final. To be at Wembley playing is the best memory in my mind at this time.

Everyone in Romania loves English football and everyone loves Chelsea, I don't know why!

We don't have too many supporters of other clubs and especially now in the Champions League Final, all of Romania will support Chelsea for sure.

JC: Tell us who you roomed with during your time here and who was your best friend at Chelsea?

DP: When I first arrived at Chelsea, John Spencer was my room mate, but I cannot understand his accent, and also his energy, it was too much for me.

But my best friend, everybody called us the twins, was Gustavo Poyet. When he joined the club I tried to help him and we became very good friends and he is still my best friend in England. I was very lucky to have a room mate like Gustavo Poyet.

JC: Did you enjoy playing for Chelsea and when you scored against England?

DP: Playing for Chelsea were the best years of my life. Scoring against England was a strange thing, because I remember when I scored the goal I was very happy, but one minute later I was thinking, what have I done, because I have to go back to England now.

I remember in the bus going back to the hotel, waiting at the stadium, Glenn Hoddle came to the bus and he kissed me and said okay, you did your job, well done and good luck for the future. Even my coach was surprised to see it because in Romania if you lose you don't have the time for fair play.

I found it easy when I came back though, because everybody in England was focused on the Argentina game and they forgot about my goal.

JC: Wasn't Graeme Le Saux in that game?

DP: To be fair, in the game I didn't know that he was there when I scored; I thought that it was Tony Adams. But after the game I realised what had happened and I was sure he would have a lot of trouble when he went back to the training ground.

But I never remind him about this goal because I don't think it would be nice for him.

JC: How is coaching different from playing?

DP: For example Mark Hughes at Blackburn is the manager but he doesn't do the coaching. In my country it is different; the manager does all the coaching. I would love to get coaches to do the coaching for me and just manage. But in Romania you must do everything, and it is very difficult, because all day your mind must be working.

When I was playing it was different. I was working only for my body, and only two hours-a-day and now I work 24 hours-a-day. It is much harder.

JC: How different is football in Romania to England?

DP: English football is different from all other countries. I played in Italy and in Romania and it is more physical here. The referees let the game go and the players are stronger here, they don't like to stay down too much. The players in Romania will go down easily and don't like to fight as much.

But practically I think Italy is maybe a little bit better than England. But in Romania we have a lot to do to catch up with English football.

It is strange the English national team is not doing so well, but the clubs are doing fantastically well. But Romanian football it is impossible to have teams playing in the Champions League because we don't have enough money.

English fans know how to look after their players who give everything to their club. In Romania it is different because they don't have these kinds of atmospheres. Here the atmosphere is unique in my opinion.

I think everyone wants to come to England, but we don't have too many Romanian players here. Most of them want to go to Italy or to Spain.

JC: Who is the best manager you ever worked under?

DP: My best manager was Glenn Hoddle, he was like a father for me. We never had a problem. He used to tell me that in my position I was the best player in the world and that I just had to keep doing what I was doing.

But I also had a fantastic time with Ruud Gullit, he was a fantastic manager to play under, and then again with Strachan at Southampton, even though I didn't play too much, but I learnt a lot from him.

Ruud Gullit didn't work tactically like Glenn Hoddle. Hoddle played 3-5-2 and nobody in England was doing this while Gullit did 4-4-2.

JC: Which current Chelsea player would you most like to play with?

DP: As coach and as a manager I would love to have a player like Essien in my team. He can play anywhere, but I don't know how good he is in goal.

JC: Tell us an original story of an event with Dennis Wise.

DP: Dennis Wise was at the training ground at 8 o'clock, even though we didn't have to go until 9.30am. This guy didn't like to sleep. He was a great motivator for the team. He was a fantastic guy.

I remember him teaching me the English songs and I thought I would never learn words like that! But he was a leader on and off the pitch.

JC: Who were the greatest players you played with here?

DP: Gianfranco Zola. He was a very quiet guy but I got on with him very well. He never went out after 10pm and he played golf every day and practised free-kicks everyday for hours after training. He was a great guy to play with, although he was no good at winning at cards, because he was always losing, especially against me.

But everybody enjoyed watching him play and especially in the training ground he was doing unbelievable things with the ball.

JC: What was your favourite ever Chelsea game?

DP: I think 4-2 against Liverpool in the FA Cup. I remember just half time because we were losing 2-0 and in the first half I didn't see much of the ball and I thought we were getting hammered today, but Gullit changed the system and he said we would go out and win the game.

Nobody believed it except Gullit. But we went out and we scored straight away through Mark Hughes and then it was easy.

JC: Who do you think will win the Champions League?

DP: That is easy. Chelsea.

They have better players than Manchester United, and none of them are injured, and they are hungrier than Man United.

But I think the first goal is the important thing, whoever scores first will win I think.

JC: Would we have won the league if we had beaten Wigan?

DP: I have to follow Chelsea closely because my little girl is always asking me what the score was, but with this I don't know.

JC: Your biggest highlights of your career?

DP: In international I have two moments, scoring the winner against England and scoring the winner against the United States of America and my team went through the group stage.

For Chelsea it was winning the FA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup.

JC: Which was your most important goal that you scored for Chelsea?

DP: Maybe the one in the Champions League we scored against Galatasaray, when we won 1-0.

My most memorable game in the Champions League was probably being 3-0 up against Barcelona at half time, which was fantastic. We played so many games in that year for the Champions League and we were just in the quarter final and everybody was very tired. But in the second leg Barcelona came back. It was a disappointing game because I was on the bench and I was not very happy.

JC: What makes this club so special for you?

DP: I think I played most years of my career here; it was the best time of my life for sure. But every time I come back here it feels like home and every time I have the chance I come to see Chelsea games.

JC: How much do you think the game has changed since you stopped playing?

DP: I don't think it has changed, it is still the same. It is not quicker, but maybe it is more tactical now since I finished playing.

For sure the foreign investment has made a difference. The money is more now.

My side in Romanian plays defensive football; we do not score many goals. But we are third in the league which is good.

JC: How did it make you feel when all of us Chelsea supporters petitioned the club to keep you?

DP: I did not want to leave the club and I was very happy when the fans showed they wanted me to stay. But with football it is not the players who decide what they do.

JC: Why did you leave then?

DP: The manager made it clear to me that I was not in his plans and that I had to go to another team, this was simple.