Fulham Captain Tom Cairney Reflects on Early Leeds United Days and Professional Career on Sky Sports
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Tom Cairney
Fulham captain Tom Cairney, who was a former Leeds United academy player, was a special guest on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football coverage of Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Nottingham Forest. He discussed his time at Leeds and his subsequent professional career.
Tom Cairney said “At eight, I think Leeds kind of took me off [Nottingham] Forest in a way, if you can say that, at eight, nine years old, something like that. We drove up to Thorp Arch, which at them times, I think, you wasn’t allowed to live an hour outside the training ground but we did. It was a bit chaos, my dad was a taxi driver at the time, so we used to break down on the way home. So that was carnage, but, yeah, the things you do and those are unbelievable memories I have.”
After his release from Leeds at the age of 16, Cairney joined Hull City’s youth setup. He made his professional debut for Hull City in 2009.
Tom Cairney moved to Blackburn Rovers in 2014 after an initial loan spell. A year later, he signed for Fulham, where he has played ever since. He has also been part of three promotion-winning campaigns, all with Fulham.
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