Aston Villa goalkeeper Scott Carson has revealed football saved him from working in a nuclear power plant!
"Probably the main source of income where I lived is Sellafield the nuclear plant," he told the Sunday Mercury. "That's where a lot of my mates work and that provides probably 90 per cent of the jobs in Cleator Moor.
"That's where people try and get into. That's probably where the best wages are. Apart from that there's not a great deal in the area to do.
"I wouldn't like to think what would have happened if I hadn't made it in football or got a job at Sellafield.
"I might just have been sitting on my backside watching the telly.
"What's it like at Sellafield? Not too bad I don't think. You don't get people walking down the street glowing! I've had a few comments about that, but it's not that bad."