Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

I'm always have been in my life a big protector of women. If I see a guy slap a girl I would rip their head off; I'm very like that.

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.