I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.