Yes I am finally hanging up my boots for good.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.