I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.

I hate talking about football. I just do it, you know?

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

Houllier did what he had to do – I’m not the first person to be treated like a disposable commodity

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.