You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

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

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.

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.

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

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.