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Defoe & Deeney Football Firsts: Training with the First Team
Troy and JD recall when they first got called up to train with the big boys. They reveal how fierce the competition is and how new arrivals shake things up on the training ground.
Troy and Jermain take us inside the training grounds and that feeling the first time you train with the first team. They tell us about the levels of competition within a squad and how jealousy can rear its head.
JD recalls how Edgar Davids and Wilson Palacios shook things up at Tottenham, the guys discuss when they realised they鈥檇 become the old men of the dressing room and a chat about players that didn鈥檛 train properly leads to the mercurial Adel Taraabt.