You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.

A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.

While the World Cup is great every four years, I think people struggle to get themselves excited about qualifiers against the smaller nations. It will take some good performances from the national team to get the feel-good factor back, as far as the England team goes at least.

Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.

My Dad was briefly an Everton player and I used to follow them as a boy.

I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.

Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet.