He told the Daily Mail “I don’t really like watching football… I don’t have it on in my house, unless I have friends over.”
“I was in the helicopter on the way down (to Liverpool) and I had to go to Google to find out who their players were, looking on the phone. I was signing for Liverpool and I didn’t know who my team-mates would be! I knew Stevie (Gerrard) and some of the others but not all of them. “
“My West Ham teammates talk about players and I’m thinking: ‘Who are they talking about? Sometimes the manager puts the opposition team up and I’m thinking: ‘Who is that centre half or where’s he from?’ I try to get involved more these days so I can be involved in banter with the lads or else they hammer me. They think I’m weird.”