No pressure on Earnie

He told the Sunday Mercury: "I've never been scared of anyone or anything in football and I'm not about to start now.

"Nothing in the game holds fear for me and I honestly cannot see the Premiership being any different.

"If I stick to what I normally do and just look to have fun, everything else should fall into place. Hopefully I'll be smiling loads this season and beyond. It's going to be exciting.

"Speak to any footballer not playing in the Premier League and he wants to be there. I'm exactly the same.

"Everything else goes out of the window. I don't care about the outside world when I get out there on the pitch. Me and pressure just don't get along. For me pressure is nothing.

"I don't care about prices and money and all that rubbish. I just love playing football."