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.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.