I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

I think after a big European game you're looking at four or five days. For two days afterwards I don't really do anything. I do a recovery the next day, which is bike work, a light stretch, some yoga and an ice bath after that. Then the second day I would just do the bike again for 20 minutes and then do some strides, which is box to box, just eight of them, just to get the legs going and the blood going again.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.