DECISIONS.DECISIONS

If I’m honest, all I did was eat, sleep and dream about being a footballer.  I left school at 16 with reasonable standard grades passes.  I know I could have done better but you know what its like, another year of school doing higher grades or the lure of a football career. There was only going to be one choice! I signed for Hibernian F.C. full of optimism.  Although I enjoyed it I had a fairly up and down time and it wasn’t going the way I’d hoped.  Suppose that’s when a little reality kicks in! It probably sounds a little daft, especially when you’ve just turned 19, but I knew it would be hard getting another club.  Some of my schoolmates were already into a university course others had started working.

I needed a fresh start but I wanted to keep playing.   A sports scholarship ticked all the boxes, an opportunity to play on a full-time basis and study for a degree.  Then you get to thinking:

• It was my first time living away from home, a new country, and different culture.
• Although I did day release when I was playing in the Hibernian F.C. Academy it was over two years since I’d been in full-time education.  What about the standard of course work and will I cope?  Plus I was didn’t really have any fixed ideas on what I’d like study
• Also what was the standard of football really like?