“There were six or seven players older than me when I started,” he says. “We had to use every tool at our disposal, we had no money, no facilities, but what we did have was fantastic team spirit. I’m an introvert by nature, quite an analytical thinker. I’m not someone who is going to blaze into a dressing room but I had a clear vision of what I wanted the team to do and had no problem expressing that on the training ground.”