“Jude, close your eyes, you are in Hagley, where you grew up. How was it ?
It was a village, a very quiet place (west of Birmingham, central England). Some people have very difficult living conditions, others are really privileged, I was kind of in the middle, actually. My parents worked very hard so that my brother (Jobe, 18, Sunderland midfielder) and I could enjoy life. I can’t really remember a day when we weren’t playing soccer, in a park or on a patch of grass outside the house. I only have good memories. It was a form of freedom. I have always been really free to do what I wanted. At school it was fun, it was always about play, I enjoyed that. I was a rather bubbly but attentive child because I wanted to do my best to satisfy my parents and thus be able to do what I wanted, play football.
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