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It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
For me posting videos on YouTube and interacting with people on Twitter is a great release from the stresses of football.
Football is a game of opinions, and some people have a great opinion of me, and some people probably think I'm absolutely useless.
Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.
My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.
Football has molded me in many ways, and I've had great experiences. But when I step back, I know that football is not what drives me. It's not really what's important.
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
They're great memories, not just as a footballer but as a person growing up - it sounds daft, but to come away from Liverpool to play the first-team football I needed. It's a fantastic place, a huge football club and they helped me a lot. I'm grateful for coming through there.
I got into the weights because I didn't want anybody messing with me. I wanted people to say, 'Oh, he's so big, I don't want to mess with him.' And second of all, I wanted to be great at football. I wanted to be the baddest dude around because I knew what it was like to not be.