Jordan Clarke (footballer)  Barnsley

This information is still under review. It will be updated soon. However, Clarke has never played for Barnsley. He only plays football for Scunthorpe United. It is in this team that he plays defender.

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Getting to know Jordan Clarke

Club photographer Damon Campion recently visited the South Yorkshire home of 25-year-old defender Jordan Clarke, where he resides with his girlfriend Chloe, to chat to the right-back about his life away from football.

Interviewer: Were you born in Coventry itself, or the surrounding areas?
JC: I was brought up in a place called Coundon, which is five or ten minutes from the city centre. My mum and dad used to live next door to Highfield Road, the old Coventry City stadium. My brother grew up there and then they moved to Coundon, which is an area of Coventry. It was a nice place to grow up in, and I went to a school called Hollyfast Primary School, which was three minutes up to the road. Behind that was my secondary school, Coundon Court. It was easy to walk there and walk back, and all my friends were in and around the area.

Interviewer: Did you spend every night playing football after school?
JC: There was a place behind my mum and dad’s house called Brackley, and it’s just a big circular field with a circle of bushes in the middle. We just used to climb trees there and have ‘stone wars’, which were stupid. One hit me on the top of my head once. My brother had to take me back to my mum and dad’s house and explain why I was bleeding! There was a tree there with three separate tiers of branches. An easy one, a middle one and the highest one at the top. If you swung off the top one you were ‘the boy’. I managed all of them, haha!

Interviewer: Are you still in touch with childhood friends now?
JC: Though I’m not really in contact with people from primary school, when I see them I’ll speak to them. It’s mainly secondary school people that I’m in touch with, such as my best mate from school and a few other people who were my age from different schools. I knew them through the academy at Coventry City.

Interviewer: Did your school ever have a reunion?
JC: We haven’t actually. I’ve been to a couple of parties where it’s pretty much the whole of our year but that was two or three years ago. Do you have any brothers or sisters? JC: I have one older brother, who is 26. He’s three school years older than me but was one of the youngest in his year. He was a good footballer but stopped playing.

Interviewer: How do you like to spend your spare time?
JC: I walk my dog now and again with Chloe, but mainly she will do that. If she’s working and I’m not here, we schedule a dog walker who comes out and takes him around for a while. It’s good that he’s little and doesn’t need walking far. Whereas if he was a big dog we’d take him out at least twice. I enjoy playing on my PlayStation and played on it for the first time in ages the other day. It was Call of Duty and I was so bad! It’s lack of practice.

Interviewer: Are you a TV and film fan?
JC: I watch TV all day. Looking at my planner right now, I missed a programme called ‘Are You the One?’ the other night, which started on MTV. At the minute I like First Dates Hotel, Match of the Day and football, Ibiza Weekender, UFC, Big Brother when it’s on and I like nature programmes as well actually.

Interviewer: Do you like travel?
JC: I love going on holiday but I don’t think I’ve been to that many places. When I was younger, my family went to Jamaica and it’s where my mum and dad got married. My dad is originally from there. He had four brothers and two sisters, and they all came over. I’ve been to places like Tunisia (but probably wouldn’t go back), Florida, Malia two years in a row, Marbella, Cancun, Greece, Egypt and Las Vegas amongst others.

Interviewer: Are you a music fan at all?
JC: I like R’n’B, hip hop and some pop music as well. It doesn’t matter what the genre is, if I like the sound of it I’ll like it. I don’t like rock music or heavy metal though. I like music that keeps me interested when I’m exercising or at the gym.

Interviewer: Are you going to see Drake on his tour?
JC: I’ve seen him a couple of times before but I’m not going to go this time. To be honest, I don’t really like being in huge crowds and I don’t want to pay over the odds to sit somewhere separate. The last person I went to see was Kevin Hart, the comedian. I saw him in Manchester with Chloe and he was really funny. There were thousands of people there but it was well organized, we got in the right area, went to our seats and it was fine.

Interviewer: Do you like any other sports?
JC: I used to play cricket for my local side and I also played for my dad’s team as far as back as I can remember. My dad’s a big cricket fan. I played for Warwickshire at one point and could have continued doing that but I just enjoyed football more. I loved rugby in secondary school and started off playing fly-half before moving to centre. My school coach at the time was a former England youth and he said ‘if football doesn’t work out, I’ll get you into rugby’.

Interviewer: Are you an American sports fan?
JC: I watched the Super Bowl the other night but fell asleep at half-time. I had to watch the highlights the next day in the end. I like basketball when it’s the top teams. Other than that, I mainly watch UFC. Duane Holmes and I always talk about it.

Interviewer: How was school for you?
JC: It was alright. I had troublemaker friends but at the same time I was quite academic and very sporty as well. I was decent at each subject. When it came to secondary school, I had a tutor at one point for maths but still ended up getting a C. I was only in school three days a week because of the football. If football didn’t work out, I’d have gone into something related to sport. Physiotherapy always interested me but a lot of time, effort and work needed to go into that. At the time though I was so focused on my football.

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