Dream job denied: how do you bounce back?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Jason Lampkin was told he was going to be the next Michael Owen, and when he signed for Manchester United as a youth player, he wore the world renowned number 7 shirt. But things didn’t quite work out like that. This is a story about and the readjustments we all have to make when our future plans are dashed.
Producers: Seren Jones, Philly Beaumont and Jaja Muhammad. Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4, |
| 0:10.0 | a space to ask one big question about one big story. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, when your dreams denied, how do you bounce back? |
| 0:25.0 | Jesse was always a nice kid. |
| 0:32.0 | Jesse was always a nice kid. |
| 0:33.0 | Good player, but we never imagined he would go on to do what he's done. |
| 0:37.0 | But it's weird that the lad who was head and shoulders below everyone physically, |
| 0:41.0 | now head and shoulders above us all put together you know he's |
| 0:45.0 | doing so well and while it's like great to see someone who you did train with and |
| 0:50.4 | play with go on to reach these heights there is like a bitter pill to swallow. |
| 0:55.7 | Even watching the other night I'm there on the sofa and I've come back from five side and my knees |
| 0:59.7 | killing me from all the injuries and I'm there icing it with a bag of peas sitting on the sofa |
| 1:06.1 | with my socks with holes in them and there's Jesse bending it into the top corner against |
| 1:11.8 | I think Croatia it was wasn't, when he scored the other day? |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. Yeah, so, you know, he's doing great, but every time I do see like someone I used to play with, |
| 1:21.9 | I'm, there is a bit of regret there. |
| 1:26.2 | Imagine a six-year-old boy who was a wonder kid at football. |
| 1:31.2 | He was told he was going to be the next Michael Owen and went on to train at Manchester |
| 1:35.9 | United alongside future England stars like Jesse Lingard wearing the same number seven |
| 1:41.8 | shirt as David Beckham. |
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