EUROPA LEAGUE was never the dream.
Not because I didn’t want it.
Because if I’m being honest, I never thought it was possible.
What kid would?
Especially when 12 years ago I was playing non league football in the Ryman Premier and Conference South, just trying to stay alive in the game.
What kid dreams about Europe when, two weeks into the off season, his dad has to tell him he’s been released by Watford F.C. over the phone?
I was heartbroken.
My dad looked at me and said:
“What are we doing tomorrow?”
To which I replied with the words he’d drilled into me my whole life:
“We’re training, Dad.”
So we trained.
Every single day.
My dad emailed every EFL club asking for an opportunity.
One club replied.
One.
That was all I needed.
An opportunity.
@WealdstoneFC and @wwfcofficial , I’ll always be indebted to you.
Then came the move to @SunderlandAFC .
A massive club.
A massive opportunity.
And I couldn’t wait to prove myself.
But 45 minutes into my debut… hooked.
“Rabbit caught in headlights. Waste of money. Get rid.”
Then came the Championship.
“He’s not good enough for this level.”
Then the Premier League.
“Let’s give him a debut and then get rid of him.”
I understood the doubt.
I’ve faced it my whole career.
And truthfully, you doubt yourself too at times.
But I’ve always tried to live by one mindset:
Outwork your doubt.
You don’t always need to see the full journey.
You just need to take the next step.
Then the next one.
And then another.
Even when social media tells you you’re not good enough.
Even when the voice inside your own head whispers the same thing.
Keep working.
Keep learning.
Keep showing up.
Because sometimes the places you end up are bigger than anything your younger self could’ve ever imagined.
To any young player reading this, don’t put a ceiling on yourself too early.
You genuinely have no idea where this game and life can take you.
And to the boys… thank you.
You removed the glass ceiling I’d placed on myself.
What a team.
What a club.
What a fanbase.
Sunderland… rocking all over Europe ❤️🤍
And in the words of Granit Xhaka:
“This is just the beginning.”
When i said Bruno Fernandes' assists this season are QUANTITY, they came for my head but just look at that game against Nottingham Forest.
Nothing to play for again & Bruno was just spamming passes, throwing himself to the ground after misses & so on.
That's not Olise-like assists that won them title & final of the DFB-Pokal.
I, O. C. m., have formally resigned my membership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), effective 04 May 2026. Withdrawing any prior expression of membership.
#ADCResignation#Obidients
One month in is still the stage where we are supposed to be impressing each other, putting in effort, and building connection not assigning roles or expecting domestic duties. So when someone starts asking you to cook that early, it feels like . They’re asking you assume the “wife role” that’s wrong .
Cooking itself isn’t the problem. It’s the timing and expectation.
I hate it
Your fucktards don’t know where to stand
You say the election was rigged and not free and fair and the same time you are happy people from a place where you claim elections was rigged are paying for the consequences of the rigged numbers.