The annual Soccer Aid charity match will take placeat Old Trafford on Sunday, with a host of celebrities and football legends coming together to raise money for UNICEF.
And among the celebrities due to take part in the game are two who could have gone on to become professional footballers. Singer-songwriter Tom Grennan played for Luton Town's youth team and had dreams of going pro, before turning his attention to music after rejecting a football scholarship in America.
"I played from the moment I could walk and played for Bedford Town where I'm from and then I ended up playing for Luton Town and played for Northampton and Stevenage," Grennan said in an appearance on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show in 2021. "I was playing for the academies and then got dropped, and then I just didn't get better.
