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.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

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

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

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.