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side of the world and I ended up FaceTiming him.
“Apparently it’s really helped, he is so motivated. He’s going to be coming to the first game with his mum if I make the roster, which would let me meet him.
“When they FaceTimed me his mother was driving him to a treatment centre to get physiotherapy. That’s exactly what I used to do with my mum in South Queensferry.
“It just flooded me full of memories. It’s frustrating when you’re a kid and you’re different and have to do things differently.
“But I do think sport, if you’re into it, is 100 per cent the way to do it, especially a sport like American football.
“The sport takes all shapes, all sizes, it’s very welcoming in that respect and it can provide a lot of confidence to a lot of people.”
His Stateside venture hasn’t come easy with an offer from a Las Vegas team falling through over visa complications.
Craig said: “I kind of felt as if somehow I had let people down and that did hurt.
“But then for an even more established team to offer me the chance to go and compete with players who are NFL quality, college quality, is unbelievable.
“Of course the dream is the NFL. And as slim as the chances are I have a very good habit of proving people wrong on things.”