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As a kid, all I needed was a tennis racket and a football.
I will always remember those summers where I would grab my tennis racket and my football, get on my bike, and that was me done. It was literally all I needed to have the best summer ever. I didn’t need to go on holiday, I was happy at the local tennis club. We would play football on the pitch, when we were bored of that, we’d play tennis. Then later we would play football again. We might ride to the sweet shop but that was about it. Sport was the main focus of my life – and not really a lot else.
I always remember the good times.
Never the bad. When I was there [Crouch and his family lived in a YMCA in Tottenham for six months when he was a child], I was too young to remember. My dad was between jobs, but he was