Best opponent
“It’ll actually be three. The first one is Messi because he was the most incredible player, with balance, speed. It was like you were playing against someone who’s not on the same level as all of us. I know I’ve played against some other great ones, but he was special, incredible. I’m not telling anyone anything they don’t know. He wasn’t quite my position; the two players I always remember having the hardest time against were Xavi and Iniesta at Barcelona. On their pitch it felt vast, and they just played football around you; you didn’t get near them. At the Bridge we got slightly closer to them, but those two, as a pair, were something special. It was football that wasn’t normal to me. It was different from anything else I came up against. I have huge respect for them both.”