Jackson Irvine

And we went over.

My parents actually didn't even come with me to the training sessions.

At the training session at the end, I was there with my auntie who lives in Scotland who drove me to the game.

And I remember after the game, they took me upstairs to the kind of boardroom at the training ground.

And I thought, oh, this must be where they're like...

tell me how I went.

I don't know.

Like, you know, I was 16 at 16.

I had no idea.

And it was like, it was like the head of youth, the head of the academy, the under 19s coach and a couple of, um, you know, other people.

And I'm just in there with my auntie.

And, um, and they said to me, they were like, yeah, there's something there.

We want to offer you two years, you know, in the, in the youth, in the academy as professional contract.

And I was like, right.

What about school?

That was literally the first words out of my mouth.

I was like, what about school?

And they were like, well, obviously, you know, you'll have to leave school and you'll move here and this will be like, like explaining to me like what it meant.

I had no, not a clue, no agent, no nothing, no, it was literally just me and my auntie sitting in that room and yeah, and that was it.