Don't get me wrong, the fans are great for us. But the fans, and the players, all of us together have to realise we have to be patient.

The crowd, especially at Anfield, want us to win so much that it transmits itself down on to the pitch at times.

Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.

You talk about results being more important than performances but, ideally, you want to put the two together.

People always want to talk about the club, whether it is positively or negatively, and if you play for Liverpool you have got to get used to that as part of the job.

Liverpool has always had speculation about managers, players, players coming, players going and it's the same as managers. That's part of being part of a big club, you always have that type of thing.

The only way the confidence comes back is by winning games. You grind out a few results and hopefully with each game you get more confident.

We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.

We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well.

Everyone's different with different ways of doing things.

I understand that we're paid a lot of money and we're in the limelight. When things don't go well, there's deserved criticism.

Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.

Centre-back is my best position. I think everyone is aware of that.

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

I'm not massively into the screamers, because I think sometimes fellas just hit it and there's an element of luck over whether it flies into the top corner or over the bar.

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.

As one of the lucky ones who could provide for my family, I also wanted to help those from my area.

I'm no different to other working class players.

I always think when you're in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you're in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names - that's what you want.

I like Tony Blair.

There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.