“i swapped shirts with eto’o after my debut – he probably used mine on his windows”

Speaking to footballers, especially high-profile ones, can sometimes be difficult. Wary of revealing too much, some of them say very little at all. That isn’t the case with Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernand

What was the first game you ever attended? My first Nottingham Forest game wasn’t actually until 1994 and it was against Manchester City at Maine Road. My dad’s a Liverpool fan and, living in Worksop,

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

S ometimes it’s the paths we don’t take. This very thought was beginning to fester in the mind of a young Thomas Frank. In his early 30s and a father of two, Frank was completing a master’s degree in

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

You had such incredible success as Wycombe owner. Why did you leave? I really loved owning Wycombe. We did some tremendous things in terms of upgrading it on the pitch – it was five of the best years