Jermain Defoe grateful and happy to ‘earn his stripes’ before start as Woking manager | Ed Aarons

Jermain Defoe grateful and happy to ‘earn his stripes’ before start as Woking manager | Ed Aarons

The former England and Tottenham forward has had to be patient to get his chance but he ‘was never going to give up’“It’s been a long time coming,” says Jermain Defoe on his first day as Woking’s manager. Dressed in a sharp grey suit that he admits he is wearing on the instructions of his mother, Sandra – “I know she’ll be watching this, and she’ll be like: ‘You’ve got to look smart!’” – the former England striker certainly looks the part as he fields questions in the unassuming surroundings of...

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