Troy Deeney makes the news this week as his team Watford FC climb into the Premier League. as captain he has a carer record of over 350 games and 116 goals, so Troy hopes to impress amongst the best defenders in the world.
Living on the Chelmsley Wood estate in Birmingham, in a 19-storey high rise, his family life was unstable and debt collectors knocked on the door. He was 15 when Aston Villa came calling, offering him a trial.
Fresh from knocking around with his mates and local girls, he played footy, got sweaty, sprayed on Lynx and carried on playing, but was not impressed by the potential exit route offered by the club that timetabled the week as training and more training,and a game at the end. Having said that he could make the last day, he turned up, played, enjoyed the post match beans-on-toast meal but unsurprisingly was not asked to return.
Another kid from the estate did get asked back but he was released having stolen a first team player's watch and he is now driving vans up and down the M40. This act of theft came as a natural instinct to a boy from the rough end of town and Troy had similar dark qualities.
In 2006, Walsall picked Troy up at 18 and after a loan spell at Halesowen Town, and 125 games for the Saddlers, in 2010 he went to Watford, had money to burn. With a nickname of Johnny Concrete, it would not be long before he blotted his record by getting involved in a fight in a Birmingham night club, the evening after his father had been diagnosed with cancer. He died at 47 years old. Troy was put away for ten months for affray, at Her Majesty's Pleasure at Winson Green prison and later in an open prison, serving three months after he had shown remorse and good behaviour. This turned his life round.
Fresh from knocking around with his mates and local girls, he played footy, got sweaty, sprayed on Lynx and carried on playing, but was not impressed by the potential exit route offered by the club that timetabled the week as training and more training,and a game at the end. Having said that he could make the last day, he turned up, played, enjoyed the post match beans-on-toast meal but unsurprisingly was not asked to return.
Another kid from the estate did get asked back but he was released having stolen a first team player's watch and he is now driving vans up and down the M40. This act of theft came as a natural instinct to a boy from the rough end of town and Troy had similar dark qualities.
In 2006, Walsall picked Troy up at 18 and after a loan spell at Halesowen Town, and 125 games for the Saddlers, in 2010 he went to Watford, had money to burn. With a nickname of Johnny Concrete, it would not be long before he blotted his record by getting involved in a fight in a Birmingham night club, the evening after his father had been diagnosed with cancer. He died at 47 years old. Troy was put away for ten months for affray, at Her Majesty's Pleasure at Winson Green prison and later in an open prison, serving three months after he had shown remorse and good behaviour. This turned his life round.
He got rid of the "negative energy" surrounding him, none of his hangers on came to visit him in prison, he worked hard on his fitness and married his childhood sweetheart, Stacey. He has been scoring regularly for three seasons at Vicarage Road repaying his Watford mates who helped the family pay the bills during Deeney's time in prison.
His first game this season is away at Everton and as a late developer he has much to prove. He thanks the stability given to him by Stacey, his mum and football at Watford FC. Watford run out to the Z Cars theme tune , so we hope their captain won't be reminded of the darker days when the police were very much part of his life.
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