Emile Heskey on the reality of raising professional footballers: ‘It’s not my career, it’s theirs’

It’s not particularly rare to see the offspring of an ex-professional follow in their parent’s footsteps. Usually, though, it’s just the one son or daughter that makes it. Two is quite the more remarkable.

Emile Heskey has managed to raise a pair of prodigies through the infamously perilous English academy system. His two sons, Jaden and Reigan, are professional footballers contracted to Manchester City. Eldest Jaden, 20, is on his second loan spell of the year at

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