As a youngster at Bolton, what was it like to train with Jay-Jay Okocha, Ivan Campo and Youri Djorkaeff?
It was great. They were really good guys. You’d learn so much from watching players like Youri Djorkaeff. He’d do extra finishing after training. It wasn’t anything major – just getting a bag of balls around the 18-yard box, touching them out of his feet and hitting the target. You saw the work ethic of players like that, who had won a World Cup. And they all bought into how Bolton wanted to play.
Having established yourself at Ipswich after spells elsewhere, how did you find Roy Keane as a manager when he came in?
I was captain under Roy and always got on very with him until I asked to leave. I had ambitions