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Gerard Kinsella's stupid mistake

In his first interview since getting banned for two years, Gerard Kinsella, previously of Everton Academy, describes how he came to be injected with a banned drug, how his football dream has been shattered, and what the future now holds.

At 17, just four years previously, Kinsella had signed a three-year contract with Everton, the team he supports.

"I was buzzing," he recalls. "I couldn't wait to sign. I thought I was a footy player already. But if I knew what I know now... you're still millions of miles away."

Kinsella survived the annual culls at Everton's academy to claim his first professional contract.

"I didn't even think of anything else, I didn't have a plan B," he says. "It was just football. It's all you know, it's all you want to do. It was more of a dream than a job but, to get to the proper level, you've got to dream."

Read the rest of the interview on the BBC website at the link below.

Quotes or other material sourced from BBC Sport

• The Independent: "Thinking Straight"

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