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English football is really different to football in other countries.

I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.