I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.