As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school.

I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

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.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.