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“I didn’t get a fair chance in England – one day I would like to play in the Premier League”

To begin with, how does a young lad from Birmingham end up playing professional football in Greece?

It isn’t the first time I’ve played football away from home. I like to venture out after starting off in England, then playing in India, Scotland and now in Greece. You experience different lifestyles and different styles of football and meet new people. I am always up for a challenge.

Georgios Samaras was a team-mate of mine at West Brom and he became the vice-president of Super League side OFI Crete so that is how the initial move to Greece came about.

Now you’re at a club called Atromitos…

I had to think about the

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