After you won X Factor, your mentor Nicole Scherzinger joined you for a gig in Middlesbrough and the club gave you both shirts. Is she still a fan?

[Laughs] I was trying to tell her that this is a proper football club, but she asked, “Where are all of the trophies?” I said, “Don’t worry about that…” I think she’s more familiar with American football, but she had a good time! You’ve since played at the Riverside Stadium. What did that mean to you? It couldn’t have meant more – growing up, the Riverside was my happy place. As a kid, I felt a very small piece of a big picture there, then to know that people were going through the turnstiles to...