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

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

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.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.

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 had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.