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I love English football.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

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

I have played football all my life, and my dad went to see Manchester United in 2005. Since then, I have been a fan.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.