For Levi Colwill, the trip to Cobham and the Chelsea training ground from his hometown of Southampton was an integral part of his childhood. Taken into the club’s academy at under-nine level, he would make the journey with his close friend Jamal Musiala, who is now at Bayern Munich; one of their parents doing the driving. That was until Chelsea transferred Musiala into local digs.
They did not do so nearly as quickly with Colwill, who continued to travel up and down from Southampton, his parents never complaining, nor his younger brother, who would be in the car, too. Colwill often thinks back to those hours on the road, the sacrifices of his family, to give him motivation.
