For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.