Start at 16 on a pitch that's 60% mud. Train, transfer, and talk your way up five leagues — if your form holds and your agent behaves.
Big-money agent or the sensible one? Night out or early night? Push through the injury or rest? Your career is the sum of your answers.
Only a world-class season at the very top puts you in the vote — and even then, the vote can betray you. Most careers never touch it. Will yours?