KEEP ON KEEPING ON

Last updated : 22 July 2003 By editor

"I have not played as well as I can but I am not playing as badly as some are suggesting. I am more than confident I will be as good as ever and playing at the top level for another three years."

"You have to try not to get too carried away with the success and try not to get too down with all the negative stuff. Please God, I have three years left at Manchester United but if not I still think I will be playing at the top level somewhere."

He also admitted:

"Being 32 in August you start to think of these things. If you had asked me two years ago about management, I would have told you it wasn't even on my mind. Now as I have got a bit older, I have spoken to Steve McClaren and one or two other people and started to think along those lines about getting my coaching badges and being a manager some day. It is a road I think I would like to go down but again it is dangerous thinking too far ahead."