“i analyse penalties all the time. i enjoy it”

Who were your heroes, growing up? Being a footballer is the dream for many boys and girls – I was no different. My dad used to work near Loftus Road, so despite having Arsenal and Palace fans in the f

Would you say your long-range strike against Spain, which sent England to the Euro 2022 semi-finals, has been your career highlight to date? That tournament was a bit of a rocket for me. I was able to

O wen Hargreaves is one of English football’s most curious cases. The son of a Welsh mother and an English father, he was born in Canada before moving to Bayern Munich as a teenager. There, he broke i

How did your move to Southampton come about in 1996? I was scoring loads of goals in Norway and I went to Southampton on trial for a few days. They liked what they saw. It was a dream come true: every

What’s been the highlight of your international career? Definitely winning a bronze medal at the World Cup two years ago. I still get goosebumps when I think about it. The whole tournament was a highl

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t