I hope this match never ends. When the match ends, the memories begin.

European football games or evening games seem to take a lot more out of you because you don't sleep that night. And as you get older, it gets worse.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

We will go back to playing like Manchester United.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

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.