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Callum Leyland "Cal" Leyland (born 23 Nov 1994) is a British Footballer/ Rising Police Officer from Leigh, England, who came to prominence after winning the record amount of most improved player awards through his glittering youth career, 10 in 12 years to be exact. making him the first La Decima winner of the prestigious trophy in the Wigan Area. From an early age Callum's potential shined through with Alan Leyland describing him as the next Maldini, while other teammates have been known to refer to him as the chubby terry. Not only was Leyland a technically fantastic footballer, he also had a burning desire to make an impact in the community by becoming Wigan's greatest police officer and found inspiration while watching the Bill.

Footballing Career

As a kid, Leyland made appearances for some of the most successful teams in the wigan area including, Eastleigh, Leigh Genesis, Atherton Town juniors and Atherton Town 3rd team. At the beginning of his footballing career a lot of critics believed Leyland was not good enough for Eastleigh and the only he was being picked was due to his dad being the manager, critics also constantly pointed out that leyland didn't have the speed, fitness or ability to play Right Wing, however Leyland proved his doubters wrong by picking up his first of ten Most improved player award for the season. During the next few seasons Leyland position in the team looked more in jeopardy as he secretly battled his vanilla slice addiction, however this did not stop Leyland from picking up his 3rd Most improved player award in a row. During his fifth season with Eastleigh, Leyland had a turn in mentality after not winning the "MIP" award the previous year, which lead to a big lifestyle change. This change consisted of dietary cuts e.g: only eating 1 Vanilla slice for desert and not 2, the fitness element included a sweating wrenching regime of constantly playing Star Wars at school which remained for many years. These lifestyle changes had a vast improvement on his game, however critics still explained that his footballing ability was lacking which was evident when Eastleigh beat Crossfields B team 20-1 and the only two players not to score was the keeper and Leyland even though he was a winger. Over the years Leyland's game slowly improved and he even gained the confidence to go down to crewe alexander (suspiciously). However when the team expanded to 11 a side the manager at the time made the tough decision to demote Leyland to Centre Back and was told to model his game on Manchester United legend John O'shea. Leyland's game slowly improved at CB which lead to him picking up a rare managers player award, Leyland continued to see out his days in the CB position, except in an unsuccessful stint in CM with Bedford high school. Leyland retired with a vast amount of team trophies and a few individual awards, his final game ended in defeat in late 2015 aged 20 for Atherton Town 3rd team vs the red lion pub

University As a teenager, Leyland studied Law and Criminology at Edge Hill University where he achieved a Desmond TuTu in his degree. In his first year at university Leyland began to get a reputation as being boring and never went out due to breaking up with his childhood sweetheart. However as the years went on Callum met his second love in Olivia who had a fiery and bubbly personaltiy, however this could not rub off on Callum as he continued to live up to his reputation of being boring. After