From the archive· August 14, 2013
Rickie Lambert
Rickie Lambert joined Liverpool as a boy and was released at fifteen; released again by Blackpool at eighteen, he took a job at a beetroot factory, attaching lids to jars for £20 a day while clawing his way up through England's lower leagues. Thirteen years later, aged 31, he was called up to the national team for the first time — on the day his daughter was born. On 14 August 2013, he came off the bench against Scotland at Wembley and scored the 3-2 winner with his first touch of international football, a header just 2 minutes and 43 seconds after coming on.