1: A Premier League Player HATES Modern Football. Marc White & Tom Cairney Know Who

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A Premier League player told Marc White he hates football. Still playing, still brilliant at it, and counting down the days until he can stop. That's one story from episode one of Marc White Fixes Football with Fulham captain, Tom Cairney. Leeds had him from the age of seven. At sixteen they released him for being too small - "we haven't got time for him to grow" - while keeping a lad a year above him down a year to develop. His mum was arguing with the coach in the car park at Newcastle, and crying by the time she picked him up. His dad told him: as soon as you become a man, it goes back to who can play football again. Two and a half years later he was in the Premier League. He's now…