Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has set his sights on a return to English football as a coach.
Zimbabwean-born Grobbelaar is still waiting on the results of a House of Lords appeal on his libel case with The Sun newspaper.
The Sun made legal history three months ago when they won an appeal on his libel case against them.
Grobbelaar had originally been cleared of match-fixing charges in 1997 after claims made in the paper.
And now the 43-year-old - who spent 13 seasons at Anfield - claims he will defy any action taken by world football’s governing body, FIFA, to discipline him.
He said: ‘‘I will be in England in the future. I said in the past I would be a Liverpool goalkeeper and I became a Liverpool goalkeeper.
‘‘I’ve said it before and I say it again, I will be coaching in England in the future whatever the authorities say.’’
Grobbelaar is currently working as a coach in South Africa, and revealed the Football Association have already taken steps to prevent his return to the English game.
He said: ‘‘The authorities in England have already pounced since the verdict. People are going to be against me whenever I step foot in England.
‘‘I’ve been blocked from taking my FA coaching badges in England, so I took them in France and I’ll take them in Holland.
‘‘People can’t stop me from making a living and if they think they are going to try and block me from making a living in England they are sorely wrong.’’
He also dismissed the possibility of a worldwide ban from the game.
‘‘FIFA will never do that because they can’t take a livelihood away from a man.
‘‘If they haven’t done it now they will never do it. I don’t take anything away from anybody, I give pleasure to people, I give pleasure to what I do, I’ve done that all my life.
‘‘If they want to try and take it away they’re going to be in for a big law suit, because there is nothing they can do to take away from my career as a coach,’’ he added.