Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

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.

Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

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.

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.