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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

Johnny was an athlete who didn't play sport. His first love was baseball, but he didn't think he had it in him to be a professional.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

I don't judge my success in life as a football player.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'