When you do a good tackle, or block, the Kop they really appreciate that and they let you know it.

For me, I'm a fighter and I like to play for big clubs because that's where you improve yourself. Every day at training you have to give a hundred per cent to be picked by your manager.

Martin Keown was really competitive but Thierry Henry was similar, he wanted to win every game.

Managers come to clubs bringing players with them and they want to pick them at all costs - whether they are any good or not.

My job is to try do the best for the team, like every other player.

Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration - accident. That's part of life. It can happen to anybody.

When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.

I love Africa. I am very grateful for everything I have in Europe but everything I'm learning I want to help my continent to get better - in football as well.

Stephen Keshi is a good coach and he has changed Nigeria into a respectable team.

You can't keep changing managers. Every time the players have to adapt to a new strategy and the thinking of the new manager, which is really difficult and takes time.

As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will only get half your wages this week,' it would make the players fight harder.

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

It's very important to know what you are facing, whether you are going to be part of the team or just a squad player.

I have never looked to put a spoke in anyone's wheel at all.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

With team spirit, you can win anything.

Whether I start or not, I will do whatever I can in whatever way to play my part.

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

I am passionate about the FA Cup.

Kieran Tierney's work rate is just amazing. He gives 100 percent in every game, he makes lots of runs and makes lots of assists too. He defends, he goes forward, he is every inch the modern left back.

I had problems with certain players at Arsenal, especially one, whose name I will not say because I don't want to feed the controversy.

It can happen in football that you argue with somebody in training but when you are not even talking on the pitch something has to change.

If you want to be successful, you need to work as a team.

I love Arsenal, it's the club of my heart.