At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

Who were the best players I had ever played against? Raul, Messi, Zidane.

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.