If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.