ROBERT GREEN

It is football. I'm not a politician.

Thank you to all of the managers, coaches, and staff I've worked with and thank you to all of the team-mates that I've shared a dressing room with over the years.

Once I came out of the First Division with Norwich, it was great.

Not playing is frustrating; you want to play in every game. But it's the life of a keeper. You'd rather be on the pitch than off.

No matter what the figures are in the workplace in terms of wages, you either feel a valued member of your staff, or you don't.

I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

I was a professional at Norwich for 10 years and associated with the club for nearly 15.

I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.

If you go to Spain and ask, 'Who has the best goalkeepers?' they will say, 'The Spanish.' If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, 'God knows!'

This is the difficulty with not picking up points away from home: the home games become that much more critical.

I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.

Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them - and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them - just doesn't appeal to me.

Thank you to all of the fans and everybody connected with Norwich City, West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Chelsea.

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

I've got injured in one World Cup, been to a Euros and another World Cup, so I've been there, seen it, and had a taste of it.

Playing lovely football and making wonderful saves is not a challenge.

With goalkeepers, when a team looks for a keeper, it looks for someone with experience.

You see people with a room full of their career achievements. Brilliant. Well done. That's just not something I do. They're in a bin bag in my mum and dad's loft.

You go through mental preparation the night before the game and prepare for moments of trauma in a game when it happens.

Football's not particularly crazy. Once you are in it, you're in the eye of the storm, and it's quite nice.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

I don't know; the gravity of playing football - you can't lose the comparison of other stuff. If you do, and football is the only thing, it becomes too serious.