I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.

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

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.

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

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.

People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.

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.