I never felt my career was going backwards.

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

I just love watching football. It doesn't matter what level it is, whether it's Fleetwood or Blackpool. I love to go and watch games.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

Everybody wants financial security for their family, and when a player says otherwise, he's lying.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.