'I do blame him (Fergie) a lot.
'There could have been more coaching, more allowances for who I was and for the fact that I had to grow up as well.
'I don't ever want to be bitter, but I can't help some fundamental way, in those eight years at Old Trafford, Alex Ferguson shattered me.
'I found myself a little bit smothered by Ferguson. I had to get out. I don't know the bottom line on why Becks went, but I suppose we were in a similar situation. I don't know if that could happen with Rooney.
'I was never a trouble maker, I didn't go on benders. It was never about getting plastered. I din't miss training. It was not like I was a total rebel. Contrary to all the rumours I never took drugs. It was the little things that used to annoy him, the haircuts and the clothes and the cars. A little bit of self expression. Everyone does it now.
'Yet I was always the one going to hospitals. the manager's secretary would phone me up and say so-and-so had pulled out and ask if I could fill in. I was doing the good stuff as well as the irritating stuff.
'I just wound him up. Not deliberately. I just wanted to be liked, to be a good player and play well.
'As a great manager as he is, he made a lot of my time there a misery. I am angry, frustrated, still trying to make sense of what happened there.'