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I’ve enjoyed the challenges of playing in the biggest games.
I know and the manager knows my best position is centre-half but if I can learn two other positions if needed then it’s great for me as a player and my development.
I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.
As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it’s what comes with a move that I’ve made. I’ve just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.
It’s nice to be settled and enjoying my football, the new experience, playing in the Champions League and all the things you dream about when you start playing football.
From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.
I definitely played on a lot of muddy northern pitches.
Everyone’s disappointed when they don’t feel like they play well or they make a mistake. I’m the first one to hold my hand up and try and rectify that in training or the next game.
Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.
Fifty points at home and 50 points away is unheard of as a team and I’d love to keep improving.
I’m a big enough lad now to know that I should just get over it and do what I have to do, by getting out on the training pitch and correcting the faults.
There isn’t really anyone I modelled myself on.
It’s not me being rude or disrespectful but as I’ve got older I’ve realised I can question people or ask why. Maybe in the past I’ve been scared to ask them or scared of the reaction of what I would get back.
