There is a mistake we sometimes make in football. We think that everybody starts out just like us. Andre Gray was not like us, not many of us anyway.
The Burnley centre forward has a background you wouldn't want. Raised without a father, he was brought up by his mother Joanna and grand-father Terry. When Terry passed away when Gray was 13, he found alternative company on the streets of Wolverhampton.
Gang life, petty crime, friends dying, friends in prison, Gray's life was not pretty. The scar on his left cheek is from a street fight and could have killed him.