The main factor in joining Arsenal was meeting with Arsene Wenger and to hear what his plans were for me.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

Arsenal have a history of bringing through youngsters, giving them opportunities, and turning them into world-class players.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

My dad Chester was a pianist and later a well-known television entertainer so football was never really something that was on his radar. However when I was a young boy a family friend took me to see an Arsenal game and from that moment on I was totally and utterly hooked.