Callum Wilson

Do you remember the first time you were on Match of the Day?

Yeah, of course.

I think I still have it on the box somewhere.

Of course, it's nice to see in the Premier League players coming from, you know, international, overseas and things like that.

But it's also nice to see stories similar to myself, similar to Semenya, where you've had to graft.

You go from a boy from Coventry playing Wolf with Robbie Williams, it's like, what the hell?

I'm sitting here because hard work has got me here.

Yeah, just living a childhood dream, I guess.

Callum Wilson!

It's a cracker from Callum Wilson.

It was.

I was in grassroots until 15 years old.

And then that's when I decided I was almost leaving school and I needed to actually pull my finger out, so to speak.

So I had to get into an academy of some sort.

I went on trial at West Brom.

They said no.

I went on trial at Nottingham Forest.

They said no.

They didn't say no.

They said, you know, we've got a striker already and we don't really see that you're better than them, so we're just going to stick with what we've got.