Former West Ham player Jack Collison still chasing his footballing dream

Injuries have badly disrupted the Wales midfielder’s career but he is determined to find another club despite being released by Ipswich Town in December

Jack Collison is reminiscing about the start of his obsession with football. He remembers that he always had a ball at his feet, whether he was going to the shops or to the park, and that he would dribble around the cushions at home, pretending he was Paul Scholes.

Chelsea were his team and he idolised Gianfranco Zola. “I was that kid playing football 24/7, whether it was volleying a ball against my mum’s walls or knocking her vases over,” Collison says. “I put a golf ball through the front window once.”

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