The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not got the passion the English Premiership has got. |
The specialists have said that everything is healing fine but to speed the process they need to tighten the screw they inserted at the time of may operation in January. |
The whole occasion, it should be great, ... Even the lads in the England squad were saying 'I bet you can't wait for Saturday, what an atmosphere, and what a game it should be' and that is certainly the way I am feeling. |
The World Cup is six weeks away so I have no doubts I will be fit. |
There are so many emotions - exhaustion, relief. It's probably not going to sink in for a couple of weeks. |
There are still 11 weeks until the World Cup starts. I should be back in four. |
There are two mouths to feed. |
There is a great tradition up here about the No 9 at Newcastle and I will do my best, that is all I can say, to try to provide goals and medals and everything else like I have always done, |
There's been a lot written in the press over the last week, and I've been as honest as possible for everyone, but also actions speak louder than words. I'm here and I've signed a four-year contract. The one thing I will guarantee is goals. |
There's not a whole lot of difference to what we normally play, |
They probably should have never released him. I know there are certain laws, but if he's not good for society, he shouldn't be in society. |
Unfortunately we didn't win today, but I'm sure there's going to be far more wins than losses and I'm looking forward to getting that first win. There's a little bit of tension from not winning, and as soon as we get that out of our system and start looking forward then I'm sure it will be good. |
wanted to play for a club who really wanted me. |
Wayne's great at coming short and receiving the ball because he's got the strength to hold it up. |
We all had that in common and that was one of the main things we'd talk about out there. |