Picture: Andy Futers

By Saj Sadiq
Danny Rose was handed the perfect introduction to football, learning his trade in the Manchester United academy.
“I was 14 when I moved up from Bristol,” Rose told The NLP. “It was a big decision to leave the family and to pursue my dream. I had to grow up quickly, leaving home, going to a new school, and looking after myself.”
While Rose captained the reserves, he never played a senior game for the Red Devils, but it’s a period that he looks back on with pride and set him up for a long professional career which took in the likes of Newport County, Oxford...