Bournemouth hit man Callum Wilson on rising through the leagues, injury battles and a short but successful teenage kickboxing career... 'It was just about making other kids cry'

Daily Mail | March 9, 2018

As a teenager at non-League Kettering and Tamworth, Callum Wilson would glance round the dressing room. Down in the lower rungs of English football, his desire intensified.

'I was there as an 18-year-old boy, training against men in their early thirties,' says the Bournemouth striker, recalling his loan spells from Coventry City.

'Some guys turned up in their overalls after work. You sit back and think, "I don't want to be like that when I'm their age". It made me go back to my club and work harder.

Bournemouth frontman Callum Wilson, 26, has come a long way in a fairly short space of time

Wilson, an ambassador for Kick It Out, was on loan at non-League side Tamworth six years ago

He told Sportmail how his non-League stints at Tamworth and Kettering taught him to fight

'When I think of those bobbly pitches with 500 people turning up.