Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

My ideal destination is a place where my family is; it could be anywhere in the world and it’ll still be home.

Family first, always, no matter what the situation.

When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up to Ayrshire and visit relations in a place called Dalry.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.