HARD TIMES

“I WAS born in Calcutta, my mum’s Indian, my dad’s English. So I came over when I was one. I lived in Ecclesfield all my childhood life. I live on the outskirts of Rotherham right now but I’ve been here since I was one-year-old. Growing up was quite a challenge. Because back then, it’s not like it is today.

I didn’t have a lot going for me as a kid. Believe it or not, I was small. That seems to have stuck with me for life. So I got s**t because I was small. My dad didn’t have a job all the way through school so I was on dinner tickets and wearing hand me downs. Trousers that were too short for you and everyone taking the p**s. Shoes and trainers that had holes in them so water just comes in.

Every time I’d go to the park there’d be a group of kids and you’d be getting ‘P**i go home…’ They’d chase you down the street. So