• Th first time I ever started playing football was when I was in reception/Year1 and we played a match vs the year 2s and I was let out to break first and I got a ball and toe punted it against the wall and from when I first played that match I loved football so much, anything from that day was just football I never wanted to miss anything to do with football and when I was playing in the park playing football my dad thought it would be good to play for a Sunday league team my joy for football grew even more and it also mad me better as a player, my Sunday league team was called Long Lane we used to win nearly every Sunday l, I loved the team and I had a lot of friends from their so it made me more comfortable in the team and it built up more confidence for me so this made me better aswell, the second season I had I was at my best I had ever been at my age at that time I had wore  yellow banana boots, my first tournament I had ever played in was at arsenal’s training ground, we had won the tournament and I got player of the tournament, over 100 boys were there and I had got Cesc fabregas’s boots and jack wilshere’s shirt. That was the tournament where I first got scouted for arsenal I didn’t really understand what that meant at the time until my dad had explained to me, so at this time I was still playing for my Sunday league team and was at arsenal aswell, a couple weeks later we had another tournament at this tournament I can’t really remember anything apart from getting scouted from Chelsea, West Ham, and Charlton, at this point nearly everyday I was playing football, about a month later all of those clubs had offered me a contract but we had turned down charlton and west ham this was a bit decision to make because if I didn’t get offered a contract at Chelsea or arsenal I was screwed my future  ruined in one decision later that week it was my last training session for Chelsea and arsenal the sky was looking grey and about to storm but luckily we were under the dome so we were covered up there were many scouts and coaches watching as they make decisions for who they think they can see potential in the future, this was for arsenal at the time and after that training session arsenal’s head of academy wanted to speak to me and my parents, at the time we didn’t know if this was gonna be good or bad was I gonna be offered a contract or released so as we travelled through rain and hail we reached the building and as we travelled up the stairs and entered his office, erveyone had butterflies and as we entered the room he said take a seat i had sweaty hands like never before and then he said my names Roy Massey the head of academy and we think as us  staff we see potential and we would like to other a contract, we were over the moon by there was one problem we still had to get wait for Chelsea because if Chelsea offered we had a big decision to make so Roy Massey understood the situation and said we can stall the offer So we shook hands and travelled back through the hail and rain as we reached the car were soaked my dad turnt up the heating and we were delighted to be offered a contract to one of the best team in England, later that day we got a text from Chelsea saying that we were offers a contract there for 2 years aswell, we had a big decision to make here do we go for Arsenal which is closer and easier to travel or go for Chelsea that my whole family supports the team I love, we had chose Chelsea so we had to tell Roy Massey we had accepted Chelsea and he said your welcome anytime, we understand, we felt bad for them but we couldn’t turn down Chelsea This opportunity would never come along again, Roy Massey invited us to the signing evening even though we wasn’t signing so we though that was nice and when we sat down everyone else who got offered a contact so we thought they might have put us in this signing evening to force us to sign because once you have signs there is no turning back as they were reading out the names we were praying that they didn’t call me name because we didn’t want to sign for Arsenal they were reading and reading and we couldn’t take it have we fallen into a trap? We thought this was it signing for a team we didn’t want to sign for, they get to the final three names the stress was real, they got to the last name and they didn’t call out my name we were relieved so as we left the building we shook Roy Masseys hand for the possibly the last time, we were quite sad because everything that they had done for us and now we have just left but on the bright side we were planning a future at Chelsea.