In 2006, John-Paul Kissock broke Wayne Rooney’s record to become the youngest Everton player to appear in the club’s reserve team, and his career looked to be on the same trajectory as the former England captain.
Yet three years later, the native Liverpudlian was driving a taxi for a living, having been let go by his beloved Everton.
Told by David Moyes he was free to find a new club in 2009, Kissock returned to the first-team changing room at the Toffees’ Finch Farm base and promptly burst into tears.
“I tried to hold it in, but I soon broke down,” Kissock says. “It was a sink or swim environment at Everton, but that did not make it any easier, and it didn’t mean I was any less devastated.
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