What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

I think after a big European game you're looking at four or five days. For two days afterwards I don't really do anything. I do a recovery the next day, which is bike work, a light stretch, some yoga and an ice bath after that. Then the second day I would just do the bike again for 20 minutes and then do some strides, which is box to box, just eight of them, just to get the legs going and the blood going again.

I am proud of my black roots and of the black blood that runs in my veins.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.