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

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

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

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

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.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.