World Cups can be career-defining.

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

I'm surprised that they've gone for Scolari. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success. He clearly knows his stuff but it's the difference culturally and [in] the football between Brazil and England that worries me. I think it will take him three or four years just to work out the crazy game we play.