My upbringing wasn't overly comfortable.

British managers tend to be a bit more hands off, let you express yourself in training.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

It's nice hearing your team-mates wanting you to stay.

It's why the Premier League is watched so much all over the world: because it has more pace and more physicality than in any other league.

Any great club needs the mentality to go on and achieve things - it is what clubs like United have.

I made my mind up that I want to continue playing as long as I can.

I have always said that management is not something I fancied, but it's suddenly, naturally started to enter my head.

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

I think playing international football burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so never felt that.

While I could still play in the Premier League, I really did not want to go abroad. I was not thinking about winding down my career.

If you win games, you think things are comfortable, and they are not. The best players don't think that way, and that's why they get to where they are: they don't worry about what has gone on and think only about the next game.

If players know their role, it is easier to keep to them.

Martin O'Neill has definitely got the best out of me.

I'm desperate to play Champions League football, and that's why I have to leave Villa.

Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren't going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.

For me, Goodison is the toughest away ground to come to. I have experienced it.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.

I knew my first game at Everton wasn't going to be a stroll around the pitch.

Both Everton and City have fantastic sets of fans who really get behind the players.

Against Chelsea, you will have periods in the game when you are right up against it, when they keep the ball. They are pretty solid the way they set their team up.

Having been around, I know how difficult it is to get results in this league. It doesn't just happen by buying players. It needs a lot of hard work.

I have played a lot of games, had a good international career, and picked up a lot of caps, but it is not going to be complete without winning trophies, so that is my main goal.