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My Life in Football returns with City Women's starlet Connie Pengelly chatting about her journey in the game so far. From growing up in boys teams to breaking through to the City seniors, at just 18 years old, the striker has one bright future ahead of her.   Any coincidental background music is owned and licenced by its rights holders. The interview was recorded in a Fitness Studio environment. 

In this episode we celebrate EFL Development Week by chatting to U18's manager Chad Gribble who reveals why our Academy is dynamite!

The men's captain reflects on a topsy-turvy twelve months for his side, where personally his triumphs helped him score 20 goals and pick up a captaincy. Happy New Year, Grecians!

In part one of our Christmas Special, Exeter City Women's captain Manfy Sharpe reviews a record breaking year for the Grecians. 

In this week's episode we chat to our on-loan striker Cam Dawson about his career to date. From growing up in the Steel City, to representing his boyhood club and then his country at Under 19's level, Dawson has been firing on all cylinders in his career and his time at City has re-opened the can of worms that is falling in love with loanees.  

In our tenth episode, Sparkesy chats about his career to date, having come back from two major injuries to feature as a first team regular. Jack mentions his biggest inspirations growing up and who he supported as a kid. 

Having made her way from Plymouth to Exeter via the USA and coached by late Kevin Hack, Grecians midfielder Steph Beck takes us through her life in football, which includes a comedic tale involving an England flag at an U21 international and greatest memories of her career to date. 

This week experiece Irish striker Padraig Amond chats about growing up playing to a high level in Hurling before moving into football. His spell in Portugal and his time here in England terrorising defences across the leagues. 

Alex Hartridge reveals all about his career to date. 

This week Dave Gribble spoke to the wonderful Jaydee Seaman who has been lighting up performances for the ECFC Women. The defender has had an extraordinary start to her career, with studies in America being a true highlight.  

In this bumper edition we speak to star striker Sam Nombe who signed for the Grecians in the Summer for an Undisclosed Fee from MK Dons. Already making himself a fan favourite at City, we speak about his move from Croyden to Milton Keynes, his loans to non-league and the Championship, before settling here at SJP. 

Jake Caprice tells us all about growing up in Battersea, coming through the youth ranks at Premier League Crystal Palace with Wilfred Zaha and providing the assist for Tranmere Rovers' dramatic promotion in 2019.  

This week, Pierce Sweeney chats to Craig Bratt about his career to date, from wanting to be a professional hurler; his choice of football; and that penalty miss which denied his hat trick in 2018. 

This week, Josh Key chats to us about his life in Football. From growing up in Torbay, transfering between the Gulls Academy and Exeter City, and how he settled into the First Team at St James Park, before becoming one of the first names on the team sheet. 

In a new exclusive series, we chat to the City players on their 'Life in Football'. From the first moment they remember of the beautiful game, right up to the present day here at Exeter City. First up is Jevani Brown, who chats about playing in the FIFA U-17 World Cup, his youth days and much, much more...

In episode 19, former Exeter City striker Jayden Stockley talks about his time at the club in an exclusive interview.The striker, now at Preston North End in the Championship, talked about his early days at Bournemouth under Eddie Howe. He had a number of loan spells from the Cherries, including a successful one at St James Park, which earned him a move to Aberdeen following 10 goals in 21 games for the Grecians.

In episode 17, Former Exeter City player Andy Taylor talked about his time at the club.The midfielder, who started his career off at Manchester United, made over 100 appearances at St James Park and helped the club back into the Football League in 2008. He also played in both ties against Manchester United in the FA Cup third round tie in January 2005 – games which helped save the club from financial turmoil.

In episode 16, Former Exeter City forward David Wheeler gives an exclusive interview on his time at the club.The popular striker, who scored 21 goals for City in the 2016/17 including one at Wembley Stadium in the League Two play-off final, talks about how his move to St James Park came about with a stroke of luck in his final bid to make a career in professional football.He touched on his relationships with Steve Perryman and Paul Tisdale, what it was like to return to St James Park with MK Dons and his hopes for promotion and another crack at the Championship with his current team Wycombe Wanderers.

In episode 15, former Exeter City striker Richard Logan shared stories about his career.The popular striker told stories about comical contract negotions with Barry Fry at Peterborough and being part of the Big Ron Manager documentary while at London Road. However, he is perhaps best known amongst City fans for his winning goal at Rotherham United's Don Valley Stadium that secured promotion to League One for the club on the final day of the 2008/09 campaign.

In episode 14 we catch up with Former Exeter City full-back George Friend on his time at the club.George, from North Devon, was at Exeter City as a youngster and made his debut in April 2006 before going on to help the Grecians to promotion back to the Football League in 2008.Since then George has gone on to win promotion to the Premier League with Wolverhampton and Middlesbrough. He is currently captain of the Teeside club where he has been for the last eight seasons.

In Episode 13, One of our Own, Ollie Watkins talks about his time with Exeter City Academy, making his debut away at Hartlepool and his breakthrough season with that goal against Plymouth Argyle, which was described as a 'lucky slip' by the opposition manager.He also talked about his disappointment at not getting promoted at Wembley the following season, and his regrets about his performance that day, along with his excellent relationship with the supporters.

In episode 11, Former Exeter City player Jack Stacey talked about his season on loan with the Grecians in 2016/17.The Reading Academy graduate, who his now playing in the Premier League with Bournemouth, has an eventful campaign on loan at St James Park in 2016/17 with the club going through an injury crisis in the first few months he was here. It meant that by November, City were bottom of Sky Bet League Two, but Jack and his teammates battled back to finish in the play-off places that season where Jack scored his one and only goal for the club - a 94th minute winner in the second leg of the semi-final against Carlisle.

Episode 10 sees Kevin Nicholson give an in-depth interview into his time at the club so far following his appointment as Exeter City's head of coaching nine months' ago.The role sees Kevin work with all age groups to ensure that there is a consistency in coaching methods from the under-9s right the way through to the first team.He does this by working with the coaches at the club and helping develop them and make sure they are all working from the same page.In the interview he touched on a number of subjects such as the strength of Exeter City's Academy, the talent of young players the club has coming through the system as well as the excellent facilities the club has at the Cliff Hill training ground.

In episode 9 we catch up with Exeter City Supporters' Trust chairman Nick Hawker for an on a number of issues with regards to the governance of the club.Nick touches on the finances and how both the Trust and Club boards had agreed a strategic aim to keep three months' working capital in the bank some time ago, which helped when the crisis hit.

In episode 8 we catch up with former striker Jonathan Forte to touch on his time with the club.The striker had to retire at the age of 33 because of a serious knee injury. In halted his progress two-thirds of the way through a good season at St James Park where Jonathan had quickly become a fans' favourite with his energetic and dynamic performances up front.

In episode 7 we catch up with Steve Tully who played over 200 games for City at full-back Steve Tully and is well regarded amongst Grecians.He achieved back-to-back promotions with Exeter and scored a winning penalty in a play-off semi-final against Oxford United. In an exclusive interview, Steve touched on his time at St James Park with some fascinating anecdotes on teammates such as Adam Stansfield.

In episode 6, Alan Tonge talks about his time at Exeter City and playing under Sir Alex at Manchester United. Alan would have to retire at just 24 and he talks about the effect this had on him.

In episode 5 we caught up with former Grecian and fan favourite Jamie Cureton who reflects on his career and his time at St James Park where he scored over 40 goals in two seasons.

In episode 4 we caught up with fan favourite Nicky Law to discuss the Coronavirus epidemic and his time at the club so far

In episode 3, City's captain Jake Taylor answers your questions about his career so far...

In episode 2, we caught up with captain Jake Taylor at the end of April to talk about his lockdown experience and being part of a community club.

In the first episode we caught up with manager Matt Taylor on April 21 to give us an update Exeter City during the coronavirus pandemic