Chris Wood
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As a defender, it should be taken from any part of the body because that's where any part of the body can score.
As a striker, you can't score with your arm.
That's a well-known fact nowadays.
So you have to go from the closest body point, which is the armpit or the leg or anything like that, or the big toe in Sheffield United's case and things like that.
But as a defender, you can tap the ball in any sort of way if it deflects off you.
So it should be just any part of the body from a defender.
Yeah, well, 15, 16, so yeah, moved over when I was quite young and things like that.
Luckily, my family, well, my mum and dad moved over with me.
Left my sister at home, which was a bit harsh, but she had the rest of the family to keep her happy and keep her in line and things like that.
How old was your sister?
She was 18, so she was just going into uni, so dad got her settled in uni in that sense, and then he moved over with my mum afterwards.
Must be your favourite one, don't you?
Well, if you ask my sister, she would say it is, but she is definitely the golden child in the group.
No, no.
Mum's English and Dad's a Kiwi, but Mum never really wanted to come back to England.
She wanted to stay in New Zealand for the rest of her life.
But as fortune tells her, I got something over here, so she decided to come back with me.
But they'll always end up going back there one day, I think probably when I retire.
When I was that young I didn't really think too much of it or anything like that but as I got older it kind of explained itself more to me that it is a big move and a big step but as a kid you just don't really understand or anything like that you just want to go play football and luckily that's what I did.
Yeah, I think that's what made me the player I am today.