So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

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.