The Premier League’s joint top scorer had injury struggles at Coventry when he lived on takeaways but his girlfriend sorted him out: ‘She introduced me to salads and healthy foods’“Before I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fleet food. Wilson always knew that he was talented enough to reach the top, or but people around him were not quite as convinced as the confident,smiling teenager who seemed to spend more time on the treatment table than the pitch.
There was a danger that his progress at Coventry City would be derailed by his struggle to stay fit. Wilson broke the same foot three times and it was only when he left his crowded family domestic and his girlfriend showed him how to eat like an athlete that his injuries started to clear up and he began to turn into the player who is now the surprise joint top scorer in the Premier League, level with Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez on five goals.
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Source: theguardian.com