SensationA two-week, three-game stint in the town of Matsumoto, a five-hour drive from Tokyo, was meant to give Jarrod a taste of Japanese football and fulfil a desire that had been brewing since his first overseas trial in his teens. What he hadn’t counted on was becoming an instant sensation, propelling the club into the play-off spots at the top of the second tier and achieving cult-hero status within a fortnight. He had scored in each game, and they had won them all. It was with a heavy heart that he left his lodgings in the town to head back to Tokyo for a meeting with a local journalist, and an appearance on live TV for the English Premier League coverage, before flying out for Australia later that night. He was turning his back on a chance to make history—he was still looking throug
