From sunday leagu e to super league

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

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

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

You can take the man out of professional football, but you can’t take the professional footballer out of the man. The sweat is dripping off Ciaran Clark, after stepping off the Copper Box Arena pitch

What are your main hopes for this summer? I always see international tournaments as being like the Champions League: it takes more to win it. Everybody is on point, at the maximum and focusing on the

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