00:00In terms of your England time, whether that be England or a club level, you were very
00:08successful throughout your career. Is there anything that you would have done differently
00:11looking back, whether that be with England or at a club level?
00:15Yeah, I would have loved to have won something with England. I was there at the start of
00:20the Football's Coming Home song by Skinner and Baddiel, and I want to see it come home.
00:26I really do want to be there when we win a trophy because that's going to be one hell
00:30of a party. I sampled it as a player and now I'm really sampling it as a fan and I see
00:37what it means to everybody. That's why I say I want to be there when we win something because
00:42it's just going to be a great time. It's been a long time, obviously, and we've got so close
00:47recently, but I want to be there when football comes home.
00:54You mentioned, obviously, you experience it as a fan now, but for those moments as
00:58a player, is that still the highest honour you've ever had in your career?
01:03For England, yeah. Obviously, I've won a lot of trophies with Arsenal. Playing in my first
01:10World Cup for England, even though that was just after U96, was a very special moment
01:14for me because I'm a lad from Rotherham and we didn't grow up with a lot of family. My
01:19mum and dad were really hard workers. My dad was a steel worker and my mum worked in a
01:24bar. So, money and the pleasurable things, shall we say, went around a lot. I got to
01:32play for my country in a World Cup. When I look back, I think of Arsenal and I won the
01:38double twice, won the lead three times and the FA Cup four times. I was successful a
01:44lot with Arsenal, but that's my only regret is that with England, I didn't get to win
01:49a trophy.
01:51We've talked about some kits before that have been famous at some tournaments. I've always
01:55got an image of you in that colourful goalkeepers kit. Do you have a favourite kit at all that
02:02you represented with England? It seemed it was either a bit plainer or completely wild
02:08and wacky. What was your take on those?
02:10For me, you could keep the wild and wacky. The red one was very wild and wacky. The yellow
02:15one was okay. My favourite one, I think, was the black one that I wore in 2002 with
02:22the red stripe on it. I really liked that kit. But yeah, the red one, I remember when
02:28I saw that and I was like, have I got to wear that? But it turned out to be a really good
02:34seller because the kids loved the colours of it and everything. So, they sold out on
02:39that one. But yeah, I think that the red one and the yellow one are the most memorable
02:44ones as dodgy looking kits. Even David James had to wear it in Soccer Aid at the weekend.
02:50I remember Petr Cech looking at him and going, wow, what is that kit? And I was like, easy
02:54Peter, I wore that, don't worry.
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