"I was in a furniture shop in Orpington, south London, and the defensive line coach at the time approached me. He liked my frame and thought I had potential to play the sport."
"At the time I was too young to apply for the academy, so he gave my mum his card and when I was 16 I came to the academy, applied to the trials, and then got in through that."
"Football's football, as long as I'm still playing I'm still chasing the dream."
Another way the NFL is attracting UK-based players is through its International Player Pathway (IPP) programme, which targets players at an older age looking for a change of career.
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