I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

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

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.

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

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.