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I will never go to trial against Barça because it is the club that I love, which has given me everything since I arrived here. It's the club of my life, I made my life here." Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game – I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win." I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honor of the greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi!" - Kobe Bryant

My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way." I grew up in Walsall from 10 years onwards. I went to school here. My first football league match was here at Walsall, alongside some friends of mine who brought me along. That is probably when I caught the bug playing football. In a matter of a few months he had gone from not being a fan, to a fan, to an emotionally committed fan, to an ex-fan. But setting that aside, I kept looking at the word “foolish”. After 46 years of becoming more and more obsessed with the fortunes of my team, I realised foolish is the right word. Whether winning or losing, I look foolish. It is not foolish to support a football team, but it is decidedly foolish to be so – as psychologists express it – fused with them. It is foolish, and somewhat shaming. Another difference is that if you go to a London team’s stadium with an Essex accent you don’t get many raised eyebrows. So no-one bats an eyelid (even though there is a difference in accents). It does stand out more up north though – but why does it matter? I don’t claim to be the biggest Newcastle supporter at all, but I’ve been to a number of matches, and keep up to date with the team and buy their merchandise on occasion etc.It was very difficult for me to live like this, but I tried not to think about it and didn’t want to give in. Flynn added: "Jamille is completely different to what we've currently got, he's proven at this level. He's got promotion from this level. He's a real handful."

Kidadl is independent and to make our service free to you the reader we are supported by advertising. And the fact he grew up a fan of the Liverpool club has sent speculation into overdrive that a deal could be on the cards. Gennaro Gattuso, the Marseille manager, has known Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi for years. Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images Football has already given me a lifetime of stories. Now I want to help our writers to tell new ones that matter to you. Fran wasn’t just the best in our team, she was the best in the league. She always stood out. I felt almost fraudulent as I didn’t really have to do much coaching.Many football fans of a certain age love to feel superior be it over a rival team or another fan of their club or other clubs but it all the same Seeing Diouf make a name for himself with his country, as well as the likes of Liverpool and Bolton gave Sima the belief it was something he could achieve. When I met the team at The Athletic, it was clear that we shared a similar vision — a desire to produce quality, in-depth analysis worth paying for and to tell great stories that you won’t find anywhere else.

When I started to take football seriously I gave as much as I could all of the time, and that’s what has got me to where I am now. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day."This is why I didn't go out to parties and many other things. I am successful because I made sacrifices for success."

It was the kit, the name... and that was it. I was hooked. That inspired my following of them and I followed them ever since. I don’t know exactly when it was but I remember hearing, ‘Sima, it’s time to take football more seriously’. I lived near Watford – born in Amersham, raised in Chesham – so I used to watch Watford. Read More Related Articles I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team – not just on me." As the game became more popular among the working classes, local teams began to form. At one point, there were six major clubs in Sheffield alone (Sheffield, Sheffield Wednesday, United, Hallam, Heeley and Providence). As people tended to not move around very much in their lifetime, there was much more inclination to support the team that represented your area and was made up of people you went to work with or lived among.

All of this, of course, is of no significance whatsoever to my new job, other than to explain that my life and football have long since been intertwined, to the point that now that they are inextricably so.