Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.