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10th January 2017
07:54pm GMT

"I signed with an agency called Full Contact… It’s a great agency with a lot of non-league talent there, so credit to them on that." "Crystal Palace came in for me and I went on trial with them for the week, and I played in a behind-closed-doors game against Brentford. It went okay, and then I went on trial at Sheffield Wednesday."After getting all these chances to prove himself to these big clubs, he received some bad news when he was made redundant from his job. Remarkably, Arsenal called him the next day to offer him a far better gig.
"I played a game at Birmingham City on a Monday. Then on the Tuesday, I was made redundant from Bentley Motors and on the Wednesday, Arsenal came in." "I was gobsmacked and took the chance with both hands. I drove down on the Wednesday and trained with the first team on Thursday and Friday. Then they offered me a deal."Uplifting stuff.
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