From Manchester City to Oklahoma: how a rejected footballer kept the dream alive https://t.co/UFu2TqWLux
From Manchester City to Oklahoma: how a rejected footballer kept the dream alive
In the dressing room of a baseball stadium in the American South, I fiddled with orange shinpad tape, yanked my heels to my buttocks to stretch already-limber quadricep muscles, and tap-danced impatiently on plastic studded football boots. Ten more debutants in creaseless kits waited in line.