S02 EP1 (Part 2): Fraser Franks

PART 2 - go and listen to Part 1 first.In partnership with the British Heart Foundation.The host. Getting this guest was a big coup for us .... Fraser's is a story that deserves to be told. It is the ultimate challenge for identity for a football player when your career is taken away from you in an instant.A Battersea boy brought up playing cage football on his estate. His journey took him first to the lush green fields at Cobham with Chelsea and then a scholarship at Brentford. He experienced the tough wake up call of non-league football and then had some great moments in the lower leagues with the likes of Wimbledon, Luton Town, Stevenage and Newport County. It was during his spell in South Wales that he experienced the highest of highs, with an FA Cup triumph against Leicester City and a defeat to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and then the unimaginable low only days later when a heart condition ended his playing career.Please do support us on Patreon - patreon.com/footballjourneys. For just £2 a month you can help fund the production of these episodes. You will also get early access to episodes, ad free content and benefits and content that non-Patreons don't get.To support the British Heart Foundation, or for more information, visit https://www.bhf.org.uk/ or find them on social media:Twitter - @TheBHFInstagram - @The_BHFFacebook - /bhf

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A B5 Consultancy podcast telling the untold stories of the beautiful game - the pain, the graft and the rejection. Media lawyer Matt Himsworth and former Luton, Stevenage and Newport County footballer Fraser Franks meet with those who have lived extraordinary football journeys. Not necessarily the top stars who have the accolades and the attention but those who have been through the mill, lived the struggles and come out of the other end to tell the tale. Series One focuses on the Academy journey at the Premier League champions, Liverpool FC, as we meet the class of 2013/14, a group of young men that came so close to living the Anfield dream but have had to come to terms with an alternative pathway. As well as interviewing the players and hearing their emotional stories we speak to those who knew the players and their journeys, including fans, coaches and a Liverpool legend.