Aspinall on his days in Manchester United academy: "I wasn't tall enough so you get put to the bottom of the pile"

Sunday, 18 April 2021 at 07:47

Nathan Aspinall used to ply his trade in a different sport before he started playing darts with football his calling and in particular playing for Manchester United's academy.

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"I was at the Manchester United goalkeeping academy for six or seven years. When I was younger so about nine or ten, I got offered a contract for (Glasgow) Rangers but the family had to move to Scotland and obviously nine or ten, that was a big move, a big decision. Obviously I was still in school so we decided not to," said Aspinall to PDC commentator Dan Dawson.

"I wasn't tall enough, when I was at the academy, we all had height tests to see in five or six years time the prediction of how tall you're going to be and I wasn't going to be over six foot so you kind of get put to the bottom of the pile."

From there, he transitioned to darts but as a result he was a late bloomer in the sport.

"I didn't start playing till seventeen, I didn't even know what darts was. My dad and my grandad played but it never really interested me because I was always out playing football. When I knew my football career wasn't going to go how I thought it was going to go, I thought I'll give darts a go."

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