I was brought up on a West London council housing estate in a single-parent family. Growing up, I saw very talented people around me who were unable to succeed. I was a professional footballer for a few years and then went on to become an educator.
When I was 15 my friends living on the housing estate would be out drinking, experimenting with drugs and I’d tell them, “no, I have to stay in tonight”. If I hear a boy at Globe Academy tell me he wants to be a footballer, I’ll tell him what that really means. You need discipline; you don’t go to the chicken shop, you eat healthy, you get to training on time and you don’t go out with your friends on Friday night if you want to play well on Saturday. The reason I can talk so passionately about this is that I went through it myself.
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