‘It’s an honour’: Why Socceroos’ new Scottish larrikin is set to have last laugh | VinceRugari
Jason Cummings is always up for a joke. But when it comes to his reputation on the pitch, and how he’s perceived as a player, the Socceroos’ new larrikin is deadly serious, and fiercely protective.
Since moving to Australia and joining the Central Coast Mariners, for whom he scored 10 goals in 21 games last season to rocket into Socceroos calculations, Cummings has successfully mixed the on and the off-field parts of his life, in a way he never could manage back home. “To be fair, when you do the talking on the pitch, you can do the talking off the pitch as well. That’s just me. I’ve always been like that, I’ve never changed.”
“I actually remember speaking in Boyler about it, years and years ago - we used to speak of it all the time. It was good to get a couple of caps for Scotland, obviously that was an honour for me as well. But it’s kind of not worked out for me in Scotland.