ON THE BREAD LINE
Berbatov begins by recalling his childhood in Eastern Europe and the frank realities of poverty, which helped to mould his strong character and ambition to play football.
“I caught the last days of communism so it wasn’t pleasant,”
he says.
“What has stuck most in my mind was how we went for bread, waiting in line for it at 6am and if you skip the line you don’t eat. These kinds of things brought you together as a family, but when you are a kid you think of it as a game.