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I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

I was a jock.

I was really just too small for football.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan.