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Maybe I tell myself I could have saved it in a blaze of glory because it made me feel better at the time - "if only I hadn't got injured, I'd have won us the game and got signed by the club I've supported all my life". I could have saved the shot - and ahead of the next round there'd absolutely have been a United scout to see it. I'd just partially dislocated my shoulder for what was the fifth time in my life (and not the last), and was waiting for a scan. I watched that game against Hull from the stands. That Hull City then narrowly lost the next round to Manchester United. Lewes U18s won the top division by a good way, and got knocked out of the FA Youth Cup, in the third round, by the Premier League's Hull City. I think I can say that it was a very good team. From Portsmouth, for a chap they flew in from Argentina, from Charlton Athletic for a lad from the USA, Fulham for the England U16s goalkeeper and from Brighton - twice - for a boy who, to be fair to him, was about twice my height and really very good. For those fours years I'd been consistently rejected.
#London football games 2018 professional#
For four years I road-tripped around half the professional academies in the bottom-right corner of the country three days a week my poor mum picking me up from school and, instead of heading home, handing me a sandwich, a protein bar and a sports drink and driving me two hours down the coast, or up to London, or sometimes just down the road.
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Some, like yours truly, came from non-league clubs, having never quite edged their way in on the ground floor. Most of them came from professional academies like Brighton, Bournemouth and Southampton, some released at the big jump from Under 16s to Under 18s, others who had the chance to carry on but turned it down (and if you're wondering why they might reject something as fabled as an U18's contract - known as a "scholarship" - at a top club by the way, it's probably because that contract entitles you to the sum total of about £60 a week, mandatory residence in "digs" and a BTEC in Sports Bullshit that you have to take instead of college). The club was in ascendancy: newly promoted to the Conference, we had a new stand at the stadium (later paid for by selling our best players, but that's another story), a new Under 18s coach, brought in from the Brighton and Hove Albion academy just down the road, and a new intake of what was, genuinely, the best squad of non-academy players in the south of England. It wrapped up its season at Wembley this past Sunday with the Chiefs' 45-10 victory over the Lions.In 2008, aged 16, I signed for Lewes FC. To date, the NFL has had 14 regular season games played in London, including three this season. In October, the Jaguars announced that they would be playing at least one game in London through 2020.
#London football games 2018 series#
They will be the first games in London at a stadium other than Wembley, which has hosted every game since the International Series began in 2007. None of the Twickenham Stadium matchups have been announced yet. "We are very excited to give our fans the opportunity to enjoy NFL action at another world-class venue famous for attracting loyal and passionate fans from across the globe." "We are committed to continuing to grow our sport in the UK and believe that adding Twickenham Stadium to our roster of host venues in London is further evidence of that commitment," NFL executive vice president of international Mark Waller said in the league's announcement. That means that at least five regular season games will be played in London in the 2018 season. These games will be in addition to the two the league will play at Wembley Stadium through 2020 and the two that Tottenham's new stadium will host starting in 2018. The agreement also allows the NFL to send two additional games to Twickenham Stadium over that same time period. Twickenham Stadium will host a minimum of one game per year over the next three years. The NFL has announced a new partnership with London's Rugby Football Union starting in October 2016.