Thurrock are up for sale – and long-serving owner Tommy South confesses he doesn’t know what will happen to his beloved club if they can’t find a buyer.
ON a warm May morning just after the turn of the century, I left my Nottingham home to head south to the Big Smoke, as my family would always call London, to interview for the role as editorial assistant on a new publication.
Retiring from playing football at whatever level is tough, the question of how to fill that void come 3pm on a Saturday afternoon is a hugely emotional, personal poser.