As I have mentioned before, there have been one or two sticky patches during my career.
Probably the scariest was just a couple of weeks before the start of the 2003 - 2004 season when I was still without a club having been released by . Drastic times call for drastic measures. We were a young family living with my wife's mum and dad (very nice of them I might add), so I needed to get something sorted!
Having managed to get hold of a list with all the managers' phone numbers, I tried to make contact with as many as I could. In addition to all the managers in and , I also chanced my arm with those in charge of some of the smaller . In an ideal world it would have been nice to give a call but I decided to go for the more sensible approach!
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As a player, when you get to a certain age you begin to and identify key junctions where . In my case there have been about three or four, but one in particular springs to mind.
I was in my second season at and it was destined for the Championship. Unfortunately, that night I had one of those games that all players dread but that we all experience, some more often than others.
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Unfortunately, as I am still I was at a bit of a loose end this weekend. and with it being an overnight stay due to the travelling distance involved, I was left at home.
It has not been all doom and gloom for me, however. Firstly, we managed to grind out a victory at Sutton in the FA cup first round and secondly, I was lucky enough to witness top class football at its very best.
The game I am referring to, of course, is . I have no allegiance to either side but I was completely .
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I would like to start off by thanking you all for the reaction to last week's blog concerning the pressure on young kids playing football. It is obviously a topic that we all feel very strongly about and is no doubt an issue that we will discuss again. It got me thinking about my own childhood and how lucky I was.
Contrary to what some people might think there was no pressure placed on me despite coming from a "football" family, in fact it was quite the opposite. Plenty of people might have imagined prancing up and down the touchline at my Under-10s match, and making himself heard in such ways as but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Hello, I'm Gavin Strachan. I describe myself as a "journeyman" player after 13 years in the game as a professional. I'm currently between clubs, having been released by Notts County. I'm also studying journalism and the aim of my blog is to provide an insight into the life of a footballer.
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