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

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

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

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

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.

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.

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