“Never Did I Think This Was It Or There Was No Way Back” — Tyrone Mings Opens Up On Career’s Waterloo 

English international, Tyrone Mings who has been through a turbulent ride from the beginning of the season has opened up about his ordeal and how he managed to overcome it.

Mings’ predicament started when he got demoted to the bench and lost Aston Villa’s captaincy to John McGinn, during Steven Gerrard’s stint. Also, his lot festered further after he lost his spot in the England squad.

However, the 30‑year‑old has displayed a comeback, which has earned him a recall for England’s Euro 2024 qualifiers in Malta on Friday and against North Macedonia at Old Trafford three days later.

Mings said: “I guess it started with being left out of the England squad but that was a whole summer of strange times really. Then sitting on the bench at Bournemouth and thinking: ‘I don’t know how all of this has happened in such a short space of time.’ I genuinely believe every experience happens for a reason and even sitting there last summer thinking that I had fallen a long way from where I was, never did I think this was it or there was no way back.

“I’ve certainly learned from it. Did I need it? Probably. I think there is always a plateau in people’s careers where things are coasting. I had been in every England squad for two and a half years and these things are sent to test you. The most important thing is how you react to them and that is what I take away from what I’ve gone through.

“It wasn’t taking things for granted but you just sometimes need a kick up the backside, don’t you? And that can come in many different ways. Sometimes you ask for it, sometimes it gets delivered to you.

“It was just a situation where if I look back now and think: ‘Was I really pushing myself every day to the level where I am right now?’ Honestly, probably not. That was the result of many different things but I certainly wouldn’t change the last 14 months since the last game of last season to where we are now. Because we went through a poor period, I went through a poor period, and now I can sit here and think it’s taught me some very valuable lessons.”