I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

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.

When Cristiano Ronaldo gets the ball, you can just leave him to it while he beats player after player.

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.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

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

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