Chadwell Heath

They all come under Thurrock, all, all sit.

Um, Chadwell Heath.

Yeah, I mean, ultimately as well-

Chadwell, like, Chadwell, Chadwell's in there

And

Seven Kings and Chadwell Heath, which is where I am now.

Yeah, amazing.

And

And in the half term, in the school holidays, we got brought up to or invited to Chaddleheath.

and other satellite centres played against or with the kids that were based at Chadwell Heath so it was always like kind of round robin games and technical sessions and the rest of it from there and slowly but surely I started playing on the weekend under 12s, 13s and then got into the squad or the full teams before Scholar.

And that's all I can remember, really.

I just wanted to play at West Ham.

I've got one question for now.

I think Desi did go into it a little bit.

But you mentioned that you were doing your thing in Windsor and then you were over in Slough, then over to Chadwell Heath.

And obviously it sounds like you had the natural ability, you had the desire.

And Yes, so I had that whole experience and I lived all over the place in London as well, right? So I lived in...

like I lived in Brentford in a bunch of different places in Brentford lived in Ealing lived in so that's West London around Acton Hammersmith I lived in I lived in West London I lived in um no that's West London then I lived in East London in Woolwich I lived in Chadwell Heath I lived in uh where else at Wanstead and then I lived in a bit north with Mill Hill so the point is I had the full London experience so 30 30 different homes in the first 30 years of my life then my partner got pregnant, we were expecting a child and I had to get serious about my life.

So I then got an accounting qualification and I managed to get an entry level role in the finance industry, working for financial market data providers.

So Thomson Reuters, and then a bunch of different companies but basically I worked my way up from an entry-level sort of administrative role over a 15-year career in the finance industry in Canary Wharf and the Square Mile I worked my way up to director level roles managing over 100 staff all over the world and yeah so and that was yeah that was basically I would say my late 30s it was a 15-year career I was working for the London Stock Exchange when I finally left the finance industry.

He's such a great player and just a true gent as well.

You know, I've met him, like I said last time, I've met him God knows how many times when I used to bunk off school, go down to Chadwell Heath.

And he was such a nice bloke.

Like, you know, that term gentle giant.