“to play with keane was an honour – it’s sad that i get to deal with a pantomime villain now”

Two hours before I played for Nigeria at the Under-17 World Championship in Finland in 2003, our jerseys arrived. We had been waiting for our names to be printed on the back – when they came, we were

You played for seven clubs across six different countries and captained your nation at two World Cups. What moments stand out from your career? What I appreciate most is that I left my mark at all of

What do you remember about your early life in Burundi, where there was a civil war taking place? I wasn’t aware of it, so my surroundings felt normal to me. As a kid, I remember collecting plastic bag

What was the first game you ever attended? My first Nottingham Forest game wasn’t actually until 1994 and it was against Manchester City at Maine Road. My dad’s a Liverpool fan and, living in Worksop,

You joined current club Angel City in 2024. How have you found LA so far? Life over here is amazing. The weather has been something I said would be different to Manchester, it’s taken some getting use

When I was 16, I was into music and athletics. I was a sprinter and I was in school bands. George Michael was my musical hero – I would stand in front of the mirror with a hairbrush singing Faith. Sch