Q - I know that Andy has scored a lot of goals, I just wandered which one sticks long in his memory. In other words, I just wandered what Andy's favourite Shrewsbury goal was?

A - Obviously you have to put the MK Dons down but I think one of my goals against Stockport last season springs to mind. It was the second goal when we played them last season at the Meadow, when I was on the edge of the box and chipped the keeper. That would be my favourite but a goal is a goal and when they go in it's a great feeling.

Q -Being an 'experienced' pro, how difficult is it to balance your playing career and contracts/wages etc with family life? What do you see yourself doing when you hang up your boots?

A - It is difficult and through the years you have to make decisions. I think that the younger you are the less cares you have and you have to do what you have to do. When I first signed for Burnley, I was 20 years old and didn't hesitate to go up there and it was good to get away. When you haven't got a family and it's just yourself then it is the right thing to do. Through my career, the biggest decision I had to make was when I left Stoke City and then went to play in the K League in Korea, that was massive decision as my wife was pregnant at the time. It was a great experience but you do have to think about family things and that is one of the reasons we came back from Korea when we did, because of the kids, otherwise I may have stayed out there a little bit longer. I'm delighted to have come and played for Shrewsbury as that is something I've always wanted to do as I was born here and live just down the road. With the Notts County thing it was about not uprooting the kids as we are settled at the moment and i didn't think all the travelling up to Nottingham would be worth doing.

Q - How did you feel scoring those two goals to get us to Wembley?

A - it's definitely something that will go down as one of the highs in my career. Funnily enough I saw the other night as my little lad watches it on DVD as he sometimes has to watch it to go to sleep, which is a little bizarre. Looking back at those goals, good times like that don't come around too often in a career, so that night was special. The people lucky enough to have played in that game or have been in the crowd will always remember that special evening.

Q - Do you have any pre-match superstitions?

A - I think all people involved in sport get into small superstitions like tending to put a certain shin pad on and then a certain sock first. I tend to do silly little things like that and maybe I should change all my routines that I've had since I was here to change my luck.

Q - Do you get the feeling you made a big mistake by not joining Notts County?

A - No not at all. Looking back at it the offer on the table made it seem like a great idea at the time. I'm glad I took the time to speak to them and in the end everything happens for a reason. I've got no regrets , I'm glad to be back and glad that the last week or so is over and done with.

Q - Do you ever keep an eye out for your home town team Market Drayton? Have you been pleased with their progress this season?

A - I do get the local paper and do read up on how well they are doing. I know they are doing quite well at the moment and hope they do well as I know a few of the lads that play for Town. It would be good to see them go up again this season, I know they still have a bit to do and it's good to see the local team do well. I haven't been down to see them as I just haven't had the time to get down there.

Q - How long would you like to continue playing as a professional, bearing in mind your recent injury record?

A - I've had to think about this a lot. I've never before had a season with injuries like I've had this season. I've never had this feeling before and it's a bit embarrassing as you don't want to be injured. It just seems to be one after another at the moment and they all have seemed to hit me at the same time. I can only apologise for being injured as I don't want to let anybody down but it's something that has hit me at this point in my career. If I had another nightmare and it kept carrying on then I would seriously have to think about calling it a day.

I know that when I'm fit , I still have a lot to offer and my body can do the things that I want it to do. If my injuries don't let me train or play anymore, then it's your body telling you that it has had enough. We'll just have to wait and see but if I can get myself right then we'll see how the next 3-months go and I'll take it from there.

Q - Did you ever feel you could make it into the professional game when you were at Newtown?

A - Definitely, I wasn't there for long and I saw it as a bit of a stop gap. I left Telford after I'd had a bit of a fall out with the manager Gerry Daley. Jake King was at Newtown and he asked if I would like to come and play with Brian Coyne. I went down there and to be honest they turned my career around. I had full belief in myself and knew I could turn it around, from there I could have gone to Crewe, Tranmere and Celtic were interested. In the end Burnley came in at the last minute with a decent offer and it all then happened very quickly and I was up there in a flash. I had full belief that I could do it there and sometimes as a youngster I feel that if it's not right where you are then you have to take a step down to take a step forward.

Q - What will you do outside football or would you like to get involved in the management side of the game?

A - I've got certain things going on outside of football, I have a small development company , you have to think about what you do after football and I have put those things in place. Whether I'd like to stay involved in football, I think it has to be in you to be a manager and it's not something I would really like to do. I think that these days it's really about who you know rather than what you know. If an opportunity came along in a coaching type roll whether it was coaching the kids up centre of excellence or as a first team coach then that is something that would interest me. I've done certain parts of my coaching badges up to B licence level but it's something I haven't pursued but you never know what's round the corner.

Q - What are the major differences between living in Shropshire and living in South Korea?

A - Massive, massive differences and I don't know where to start to try and explain. The culture in Korea was a great experience and I'm so glad I went there. The food and the way you live are completely different than anything in England, and then to look at the differences between Korea and Shropshire is even more different. I could talk for hours about the pluses of playing out there, obviously there were some downsides.

Q - When you were a kid playing football, which player did you pretend to be?

A - I was a massive Mark Hughes fan when I was growing up. I was fortunate to watch him quite a few times and I thought he was a great all round centre forward at that level. He was highly respected throughout this playing career and now as a manager and I think he was my perfect all-round player.

Q - You've worked under a few managers who would you say is the best?

A - Every manager is different and I've had a massive range of managers. Everyone has their different ways of going about things, the way they play, the way they are with the team and their man management. I've played under some big name managers and I have learned a lot from all of them. As a player you just have to concentrate on what the manager of your club wants you to do, so it's no good thinking about who was the best as you've got to concentrate on what your manager wants you to do as he is the manager of the club.

Q - who's the best striker you have played alongside and who is the best defender you have played against?

A - I'd have to go with Ian Wright who I played with at Burnley. He has so many qualities and I learnt so much playing with him but also from his character in the dressing room. I've been lucky to play with a lot of centre-forwards, I played with Chris Waddle, Adi Akinbiyi, Tommy Mooney but also with great, great goal scorers such as a lad called Andy Patton, his work ethic to the game wasn't the best but he could score a goal from anywhere in the 18 yard box. I've been lucky enough to work with a lot of good centre forwards over my time.

When you play against Championship and Premiership teams, those defenders are hard to play against but you always seem to have that little bit of extra time as they are reading the game and know where to be. It's harder to play against lower league defenders because you don't get any time on the ball and everyone is always in your face. It is a tricky question as I don't think there have been any outstanding defenders where you feel you don't want to play against them, I just don't like playing against lower league defenders as its horrible.

q - As you get nearer to the end of your career, do you feel that you appreciate every game more than when you started out (and had your whole career ahead of you)?

A - At the moment I just appreciate every training session, anything just to get out there playing again. I just get out there and try to do my best as I don't think you can think about a game as being your last. Any game could be your last no matter what age you are as any tackle could mean the end.

Q - Are you fluent in Korean?

A - no. It is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world and I did manage to learn the alphabet. A lot of their language is based on the alphabet as it's not like over here where we just have letters. In Korea it's the symbols which mean different words and that's how they create their language. I did learn a lot there but it would take you yeas to learn it and I did pick up bits and bobs of the language.

Q - Who were your Town heroes when you used to stand on the Wakemen End?

A - I wouldn't say that I had heroes, it was more about certain games and moments that stay with me. I used to go and enjoy Town as a whole and not have specific heroes as I was just into watching the team play.

I can remember seeing Victor Kasule's debut and he just seemed a crazy man off the field, I remember the Shrewsbury v Middlesbrough game when Shrewsbury won and Middlesbrough went down and they set fire to the away end, we went to Walsall away and I think it was Gary Hackett who scored and absolute worldy from the edge of the box that flew into the top corner and I was right behind it, I remember getting on the bus after school to go up to Oldham when they had their plastic pitch and we got battered 3-0 that night. It was more the experience of going around and watching Shrewsbury as a lad that sticks in my mind rather than certain players.

Q - What has been your favourite team you have played for?

A - I've loved my time at every club I've been at to be honest. My time at Burnley with it being my first club was great, it was a big club with a great fan base, Stoke was a great club with a great fan base and I've loved playing at Shrewsbury as it is something that I've always wanted to do in my career. Korea was a great experience at a very well run club.

Q - What effect has the recent criticism directed towards the manager had on the squad?

A - It depends if you listen to the radio, read papers, read the internet as to whether you know what people think. If you get involved in all of that then it might affect certain players but I think you just have to get on with your own individual things and performance. Everyone is entitled to their opinion as to how they feel at that time. You take criticism week in week out as a player and you just have to take it so I don't think it affects us as such and you just have to get on with what's right for yourself and the team.

Q - What's the best advice that you've received.

A - I think it's the old one where you have to get your head down and work hard. That's always stuck in my mind and when I first joined Burnley, Jimmy Mullen said to me if I work hard now, knuckle down and do things right then you and your family will never have to worry . Since then I've always gone out there and done my best as I didn't want to go back to doing what I did at Newtown. If you want a career in the game, it is a hard career but what you put in you will eventually get out.

Q - Who are your favourite clubs?

A - Growing up it was probably Shrewsbury but when you are a player you tend to lose a little bit of being a proper fan over the years. As a child I was always a big Shrewsbury fan and I used to go and watch Man United and was quite lucky to get to go and see both sides. I went up to watch Stoke with my mates a few times as they were big Stoke fans. So they are the three major teams that I look out for their results.

Q - What was your first gig, who was it and where was it?

A - I think it was Rod Stewart at the NEC but it was only about 5-6 years ago with my wife, that's unless you count seeing 2 Unlimited at Fox's Nightclub in Wolverhampton about 15 years ago.

Decisions, Decisions.

Sun or Mirror? - Sun
Indian or Chinese? - Indian
Sugababes or Girls Aloud? - Both
Corrie or EastEnders? - Again I'll have to go for both as I watch them both
BMW M5 or BMW X5? - Both again, I'm being greedy
McClaren or Sven? - To be honest I can't stand McClaren and I can't forgive him for not getting us to the Euro's
Simpsons or Family Guy? - Neither
Magners or Guinness? - Definitely Guinness
Christina or Beyonce? - Beyonce
Parky or Jonathan Ross? - Jonathan Ross as he's quite funny
X Box 360 or PS3? - I'd have to say PS3 as I had a PS2 a while back
KFC or McDonalds? - I'll have to say both again
Holidays with lads or girlfriend/wife? - Definitely one with the wife
Match of the Day or The Championship - Match of the Day
Cats or Dogs? - Dogs
Rolex or Tag? - Breitling
Tiger Woods or Roger Federer? - They are both unbelievable
Cinema or Home DVD? - Home DVD
Reebok or Nike? - Nike
Cloughie or Jose? - Both are unique characters in their own way
X Factor or Come Dancing? - X Factor
Sauna or Jacuzzi? - Jacuzzi
Ralph Lauren or Giorgio Armani? - Ralph Lauren