The Aston Villa defender believes intensity can destroy the pleasure and has set up two academies based on this principleIt is just before 6.30pm on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after
England defeated Kosovo in an eight-goal thriller, and Harry Kane is refusing to give Tyrone Mings a moment’s peace on a five-a-side pitch in Birmingham. This Kane is so small, though, that he could almost run between Mings’s legs. “Incredible, isn’t it? He could have at least put a Mings shirt on!” the Aston Villa defender says, laughing about one of the youngsters at his new academy.
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