Lee Valley Lions Player Profile

Nick Alley – Forward

Full Name: Nicholas Reeves-Alley

Date of Birth: 06/03/90

Place of Birth: Homerton

Height: 5′ 11″

Weight: 176lb

Colour of Eyes: Blue

Shoe Size: 10

Nickname(s): Nick, Jaffy

Profession: Student

Family/Marital Status: Taken

Current Home: Loughton, Essex

Pets: 3 cats

Favourite Food: Dorset cereal

Favourite chocolate/sweets: Jaffa cakes and jelly babies

Worst Food: Coconut chocolates

Favourite Drink: Caffeine Lucozade

Hobbies: Until I’m getting paid, hockey is all I can afford

Favourite room in the house and why: Bedroom, it has everything I need – computer, TV, bed etc

Favourite TV programmes: Scrubs, Mock the Week, House, Family Guy, The IT Crowd

TV switch-off: Anything on ITV (minus the rugby)

Favourite film: Borat

Favourite music/band: Anything that George (Nick’s brother) hates

Last CD you bought: I don’t buy CDs – broadband is all I need

First record/CD you ever bought: Limp Bizkit

Most admired female: Ruairi Teahan (Lions’ team member)… wait

Best thing that’s ever happened to you: I was born, that’s a good start I guess

Former clubs: Lee Valley Juniors, Haringey

Favourite hockey player: Ilya Kovalchuk

Favourite rink: Sobell, that place is amazing

Worst rink: Gosport… I hate small rinks

Best ever game: Versus Lee Valley Under 19s, 6-5 overtime win

Worst ever game: Two weeks previous to the above, a 14-1 loss to the same team

Worst injury: Dislocated shoulder with my back out of line. Last season was pretty much one big injury.

Favourite shirt number: 23 and 2

Best thing about hockey: The adrenaline rush

Worst thing about hockey: Being humiliated (35-1 in the Under 12s, anyone?)

Which other sportsman would you most like to be? Rod Brind’amour, that guy is a machine

If someone gave you £100,000 tomorrow what would you do with it? Buy myself a car that I don’t have to park around the corner at parties

If you were on Mastermind what would your specialist subject be? How to be a hermit