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My Football Firsts | Danny Ings

First game you watched live as a supporter?

It was Nottingham Forest against Aston Villa. My uncle is a Forest fan and took me along, and my dad actually had a spell of supporting Villa just to be against him. I’m not sure what year it was - all I can really remember from it was that it was a night game and the experience of walking up to the stadium and seeing it under the lights was amazing. I was really young.

First football hero?

I will say Matt Le Tissier. He was local to Southampton, which was near where I grew up, and he was obviously a very classy player. As I got a bit older, I loved players such as the Brazilian Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.

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