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When You See Young Players Coming Into The Squad And Pushing You, No Matter What Age You Are, You Have To React. You Have To Worry About Yourself And Perform As Well As You Can. If You End Up Looking Around At Others, Wondering Whos Performing Better, You Take Your Eye Off The Ball.

I Had A Fear Of Losing, A Fear Of What Might Happen If I Had A Bad Game. Would I Get Dropped? I Don't Remember A Lot Of Stuff In My Career.

My Dad Shaped The Footballing Side Of Me, And Mum Shaped Me As A Person. I've Always Been Very Close To Her - We've Only Ever Had One Argument, And That Was Over Something Stupid When I Was 13.

Even With The Quality Of Players That We Have, They're An Extremely Hard Side To Break Down And Once They Get On Top Of You, You Find It Difficult To Stem The Flow Of Attacks.

There's So Many Kids Out There And It's Such A Cut-throat World. I've Seen A Lot Of My Mates, You Know, Who Are Better Players Than Me At A Certain Age, And They're Not In Football Now.