When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.