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I think if you’re not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.
But I don’t see myself as someone who needs to be managed or has to worry about injuries.
Coming out of a club and going into a new one is never easy.
John Terry has developed my game for sure.
I have never pulled a muscle and I don’t see myself as a person who needs to try and stay fit. I just need to play games and you can never replicate that in training.
As much as you want to improve or help the team, as a centre-back your job is to go under the radar and keep the ball out of the net. If you do that and let the strikers get all the adulation and the headlines, then you’re probably doing your job.
Me and my girlfriend don’t have any family in Ipswich, so we were thinking of what we could do to fill our time on Christmas Day. We thought about feeding the homeless and we phoned up the church that we eventually went to and asked if we could help.
John Terry is a fantastic centre-back – a centre-back that a lot of people would put in their all-time Premier League XI.
There have been times in my football career where I’ve thought: ‘Is this it? Is this as far as I’m going to go?’
Whenever you’re playing in the Championship or League football, you know there are play-offs at the end of it. If you miss out on the top two, it’s a great alternative to play in a play-off final.
Since I have been called up I think I have heard from everyone I have ever come into contact with in football, which is nice. Everyone has played their own part in my development and has a story to tell on my journey.
I’ve got two discs at the bottom of the back that are quite badly damaged, that obviously happened over a period of time, and there’s inflammation on one of the vertebrae as well, which has come from the angle of my pelvis and spine.
When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.
Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it’s a very lonely place for a child and some kids don’t bounce back from it.
I lived in a homeless shelter. That’s what I mean when I say I’ve been in situations where people need help. I don’t remember my exact age, but I remember there were two bunk beds and five of us in there: me, my three sisters and my mum.
I was in an academy from the age of eight. I couldn’t play for my grassroots team then.
If you make one thing your life and soul – as much as football is my career and main focus – then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.
I struggle to see myself as Tyrone Mings the Ipswich footballer. I’m just Tyrone from Chippenham.
I buy sleeping bags, food, gloves and warmers, and I just usually go out in Bath, which is where I’m from, and hand them out. I’ve done it on Christmas Eve, schedule allowing.
In moments of difficulty there are positives you can take and lessons you can learn.
