Troy Deeney: If I hadn't gone to prison, I would be dead now.. it was the shock I needed

Former English striker Troy Deeney was just nine months out of prison when he scored the goal that forever linked him to Watford, dramatically leading them to the Premier League play-off final against Leicester in 2013.

Dewey scored a goal in the 97th minute, just 20 seconds after Antony Noukart missed a penalty that could have sent Leicester through. That goal, which commentator Bill Leslie famously shouted Dewey's name during, remains one of the standout moments in the history of the Premier League.

Dini spoke to FourFourTwo: "You can describe it that way, but I can't! At that moment, I was incredibly calm, and I felt like everything around me slowed down, just like we see in the movies. I told myself: strike the ball cleanly and I will score. And as soon as the ball hit the net, I felt like the stadium exploded with noise. The celebration was crazy."

But Digne's life before that moment was far from stable. The player admits that he was a different person in his youth, having been expelled from school, and he had the opportunity to join Aston Villa when he was fifteen years old, but he only attended the first and last day of the four-day trial.

He added: "I was trying to be the cool kid in front of my friends. They were playing football in the local park, and some of them were smoking, and I knew the girls were there, and it was the summer holidays, so I didn't want to go to Aston Villa. I knew there was a match on the last day of the trial, so I only showed up on the first day and the last day. I wasn't in the right mindset for it."

In a later stage of his life, Dini hit a severe low after spending 13 weeks in prison, an experience he now sees as having completely changed the course of his life. He said: "If I hadn't gone to prison, I would be dead now. That was the radical change I needed."

After his release from prison, Deeney returned to football and successfully rebuilt his career, becoming one of the prominent figures at Watford. He scored nearly 50 goals for the team in the Premier League, as the period of decline he experienced turned into a launching point for an impressive professional career.