I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

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

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.