Clubs don't like their players going off to play international matches and you can see a scenario where they eventually start to make it more difficult for international sides to call up players.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

All Newcastle fans need to know is that I will be giving everything for their cause now.

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

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.