 Wormull was born in Crawley , West Sussex , and played for the under @-@ 15 team at local club Three Bridges before beginning his football career as a schoolboy with Brighton & Hove Albion . He joined Tottenham Hotspur while still a junior , and at the age of 15 became one of the youngest players ever to appear for their reserve team . In 1995 , he played in the final of the FA Youth Cup against Manchester United youth team , scoring the opening goal in the first leg , which Tottenham won 2 – 1 . By the time the second leg went to a losing penalty shootout , Wormull had been substituted by Stephen Clemence . The closest he came to first @-@ team football in six years at the club was in the Intertoto Cup , a competition in which Tottenham fielded extremely weak sides , including that which lost 8 – 0 to FC Cologne . 
