I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.