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"Scouts came to watch me and I had an absolute stinker - I smelled out the entire pitch!" - Michail Antonio rues late start to international career
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Michail Antonio must have thought that international football was just never going to happen for him before he finally got his first cap for Jamaica at the age of 31.
The forward had the opportunity to represent the Caribbean nation nearly a decade earlier, but let it slip through his grasp.
"But they came to my next game against Leeds and I had an absolute stinker - I smelled out the entire pitch!
"Had that injury not happened, I definitely would have played a few games – how many I’m not sure, with the quality England had.
"But I got called up by Jamaica and I don’t regret it, I enjoyed every moment."