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.

When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.

Bayern Munich are probably the standout team on the planet.

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.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.