I’m Championship star who played with Harry Kane and Steven Gerrard before being sacked for paying fine in PENNIES

LAWRENCE VIGOUROUX has spoken for the archetypal clip astir being sacked by Swindon for paying a £50 good successful PENNIES.

The Swansea goalkeeper built specified a notorious estimation regarding his cognition that nary nine connected these shores would interaction him.

But Vigouroux has since learned the mistake of his ways and hopes to proceed producing apical performances to assistance the Welsh broadside instrumentality to the Premier League.

The 31-year-old is relishing playing successful Saturday lunchtime's South Wales derby astatine Cardiff.

The London-born erstwhile Chile Under-20 planetary utilized to beryllium Harry Kane’s shooting grooming spouse astatine Tottenham and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Steven Gerrard portion a youngster astatine Liverpool.

But    helium caused a stink successful Swindon erstwhile the Anfield giants loaned them the past 21-year-old stopper successful 2015.

Vigouroux explained: “I was precocious to grooming aft being delayed by a sojourn to the dentist.

"I had atrocious toothache and felt I shouldn’t person been fined due to the fact that you cannot bid erstwhile your teeth are hurting. But they insisted I pay.

“Because I felt hard done by, I decided to marque it ­difficult for them truthful I visited the slope and asked for £50 successful 1 pennies.

“The pistillate down the antagonistic thought I was a shopkeeper who needed alteration — but she lone had £20 successful 1 pennies. So successful the extremity I settled for them positive different £20 of 2ps and a tenner of 5ps.

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“I dropped them disconnected to the fines collector — skipper Nathan Thompson, who present plays for Stevenage — who wasn’t happy.

“Our manager Mark Cooper told maine to permission and ne'er travel back.

“I felt atrocious and took the pennies backmost and paid it successful notes.

“But erstwhile I returned to Liverpool, they weren’t happy.

“I had a frosty mates of days grooming from 8am to 6pm.

“Eventually Cooper invited maine to Doncaster wherever Swindon were playing. I swallowed my pride, apologised and helium took maine back.”

Vigouroux concedes it was situations similar that and often being precocious for grooming that made his sanction mud crossed the EFL.

And his proposal to immoderate youngster is: Be nonrecreational each time due to the fact that thing happens by luck. You tin beryllium successful the close spot astatine the close clip to get an accidental but if your cognition is not close you volition not support it.

He said: “The easiest happening is making your debut, staying successful the squad is the hardest. You spot tons of players from apical clubs who driblet down the leagues and find it hard to travel back.”

One subordinate helium uses arsenic a exemplary pro is ex-Spurs team-mate Kane — present astatine Bayern Munich.

Vigouroux, who initially came done the younker ranks astatine Brentford, spent 2 seasons successful North London.

He said: “Tottenham needed a grooming keeper for the Under-18s truthful I went determination and they ended up signing me.

“The 1 happening I learned was however important the extras were. After grooming Harry would beryllium connected his ain oregon I’d beryllium with him successful extremity for an hr doing finishing.

“It was bully for maine due to the fact that I was moving with idiosyncratic who was unbelievable astatine finishing and seeing however his encephalon worked with angles and wherever helium was much apt to people from. That helped maine and him.

“That’s the main crushed helium is wherever helium is now.

“It’s that cognition of it’s ne'er capable and bash those extras to hone your skills.”

Vigouroux was snapped up by Liverpool aft a palmy trial, pursuing his Spurs manager and present Anfield academy manager Alex Inglethorpe to Merseyside.

He said: “It’s a intelligence city. Everyone is shot crazy, they enactment the squad similar it’s everything.

“Even though I was lone playing successful the Under-21s, I’d got spotted successful the streets and stopped by fans.

“I didn’t adjacent cognize however they knew maine — but they did, possibly from watching the Under-21s connected Liverpool TV.”

And the keeper volition ne'er hide how,  aft agreeing a caller declaration astatine Anfield, Kop fable Gerrard came over at the grooming crushed to congratulate him.

He said: “It’s thing that has stuck with maine my full career.

“It doesn’t substance however large you are successful the game, you should ever beryllium determination to assistance and animate youngsters.”

The penny-gate saga was not the lone clip Vigouroux was recalled to Liverpool from Swindon.

When Jurgen Klopp took implicit from Brendan Rodgers successful 2015, the German wanted to instrumentality a look astatine the keeper successful training.

Vigouroux recalled: “It didn’t substance who you were oregon wherever you were, helium got everyone successful for a week to instrumentality a look. He wanted to cognize what helium had.”

Vigouroux went connected to motion for Swindon permanently wherever helium spent 3 years — including playing for existent Swans brag Luke Williams — earlier spending six months in his dad’s location federation Chile playing for Everton de Vina del Mar.

He soon missed England but recovered it hard to find a nine earlier yet Leyton Orient gave him a chance.

He said: “No 1 present would instrumentality maine due to the fact that of my estimation for cognition and being precocious for training.

“I got offered a contract, which was obscurity adjacent the wealth I’d been earning before, but it was my past chance.”

Vigouroux took it with some hands and spent 3½ years there, winning the League Two rubric nether brag Richie Wellens, who had earlier released him from Swindon.

He spent past play arsenic a back-up keeper astatine Burnley during their doomed Premier League run earlier joining Swansea successful the summer.

And his signifier has seen him called up for the past fewer Chile squads arsenic they bid to suffice for the 2026 World Cup.

Vigouroux is blessed to beryllium reunited with Williams and said: “I knew helium was a large manager astatine Swindon but he’s successful a antithetic stratosphere now.

“He’s a immense cardinal to our occurrence truthful far. Swansea was erstwhile a Premier League club. We’re moving arsenic hard arsenic we tin and spot wherever it takes us.

“Cardiff is going to beryllium a hostile ­atmosphere but we mustn’t fto the juncture get to us.”