Dan Burn feared his football dream was over when he was earning £9 an hour collecting shopping trolleys in an Asda car park.
Even when he got a break at Darlington aged 17, it was on a £55 YTS scheme. “It was costing me £80 a week in petrol to get to training! So I crammed three or four of the lads in the car for lifts so I could take £20 quid off them.”
Eddie Howe has players who have worked their way up from the bottom to get their big day at Wembley on Sunday, when they’ll try to lift the Carabao Cup and a first domestic trophy since 1955.
