Road to recovery

A veteran of more than 400 games in the Football League and nine England caps, Geoff Thomas endured one of the biggest hardships anyone could ever experience when he was given just three months to liv

Turns out the spirit of adventure is really contagious

Two hours before I played for Nigeria at the Under-17 World Championship in Finland in 2003, our jerseys arrived. We had been waiting for our names to be printed on the back – when they came, we were

What do you remember about your early life in Burundi, where there was a civil war taking place? I wasn’t aware of it, so my surroundings felt normal to me. As a kid, I remember collecting plastic bag

Not all illnesses are visible and I’m proof of that

TONY FLYNN, 67 I’ve recently come out of hospital after a triple heart bypass so I haven’t been using my pitch. Somebody else is using it now but I do a bit part-time. We’ll see how my fitness goes, w