I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.

I don't want to be modelling G-strings. It's not that good for my image – I'm a footballer not a tart

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

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

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.

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.

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.