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Chris Kamara

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“I'm so glad I did it, you know I tried to pull out when they rang me and said we've been commissioned for series seven I went oh no and they went what do you mean oh no I went Oh no you're not getting the old coming they said Oh don't worry about it and I've watched a bit of the first episode and even though it don't sound like me it's passable you know so I hope people enjoy it”
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“Yeah, kids sighed achieving my ambition and my dream yeah I can, as a young black kid playing on the fields, round where I lived, thinking that one day I'll play an airsome park for Middlesbrough and Ellen Road for Leeds blown my mind away, you know. ambition and dream achieved.”
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“They're lightning quick. Yeah, they're fine. So they're there in terms of speech, but I have days where if you're out and about or even indoors, there's nothing in the brain area, so you know where. I could normally go into a room, did it all the time, speak to everyone, have a laugh that was the first thing on my mind now that part of it is hard work, and it feels hard work and it feels a struggle and it doesn't feel natural. That's the worst thing. So I tend not to do it very often, you know, unless I'm feeling good, I've spoken to someone else and I can tell it's fluid, the voice, then I'll go in a room and be myself again.”
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“It consumed your mind or it has done mine, so every day I wake up the first thing I think am I gonna be able to talk today, you know, so immediately I wake up, I'll go in the bathroom and I'll look in the mirror and say a few words and it's fine or I think it's fine The perception is fine in my head and then I'll go downstairs and talk to Anne and all of a sudden that pathway is restricted and God not again today you know and that's been hard to get my head around and my therapist Daniel he says you exaggerate in your mind you know that's the problem You've never had to think about your speech now you're thinking and you're overthinking so even though like you said it seems fine to you in my head I know that it's slower than it would have been had we spoken three years ago”
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“She said she thought for a while she didn't say anything. She said she thought. For a while there was something not quite right, but she couldn't put her finger on it. she's been my rock, you know, now, you know. I don't hardly, you know, this is the longest I've spoken to anybody for a long time. And you'll probably see when you edit this tape, sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's coming out okay, now it's coming out okay and it feels fine, you know, and that's all to do with the mind. Maybe I'm talking about a good thing now with an ant, so it's fine and it's free. So yes, she's you know she's taking the weight heavy weight of my shoulders and you know allowed me to do what I do to continue doing what I'm doing if I want to do it but she does say from time to time you're allowed to say no.”
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“Everything, you know. It take wives for granted or I did. You know, I can't speak for everyone else. But it's only when ye have a problem like this because you know I just live for today, you know, I'm fine no problems, don't worry about me. It's when you have a problem. Look at your closest one and see what they do for you and how they react to what you're going through, which is difficult. And then you feel sad about not sharing things before and keeping things away from”
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“Went to the after 10 minutes. And not like today where people know and celebrate. Of course, stupid me, you know, dad this death threat goes straight because I scored in the end where the pompy fans were and gave it all that. So yeah, no, so the police has got wanted to take me back to my dicks, but I said no, leave it now it's fine. And one of my teammates, Kenny Stroud, his wife Linda, was with this girl called Anne. and I asked her out. forty years later or forty three years later we're still together.”
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“Yeah, so they'd got wind that they were gonna do me in, you know. So, you know, when I played for Pompey, there was a small section of fans you onto the pitch because of your color booed you off, you know. But like I said back in those days I didn't care not one job, you know, and I didn't care when they said about this, you know, you're gonna be none in. I said, oh, it's just a threat. Don't worry about it. But the police intelligence said, no, we need to pick you up. and take you to the game and drop you back home. I did and she said.”
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“We met when I was at Swindon. I got transferred from Portsmouth to Swindon, my first ever transfer and In nineteen seventy eight. And we actually played Portsmouth my first game for Swindon was home to Portsmouth. Yeah I ought to have a police escort to the game and The club had been informed by the intelligence that the National Front Cause Portsmouth had two hundred national front supports.”
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“No, no, no, it's all, you know, I was allowed to be just me, so I didn't have to work at it like I had to work at editing those pieces together. You know, they're training, playing, interviewing the managers all came natural. It was that hard work that I wanted to prove that I could do. But no, I was fortunate. It was just me.”
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“I don't know I'm still baffled by that I went to Incondrance. fortieth anniversary with his wife he was Ian was the producer of Sokasadi who gave me the job and I said Why, you know I'd seen you on doing other programs punditry and thought you'd be great for our show. He said you know took a chance with you and and it works with”
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“I said yeah, so you went would you like to do some features for us? So I would actually go and train with teams Premier League teams, you know you cannot imagine in a million years that they let you and train with the players these days but I did that back in the day nineteen ninety nine so I'd go and train joining the training with them interview the managers the players shoot the and then I went and edited those pieces because I didn't want someone saying oh yeah it's fine but you know the hard work is done by the editor so I would sit myself in a studio And sometimes it took six, seven hours for a four minute piece to edit it down, but I thought, right, I don't want anyone saying he's thereby fraud hard work. And if you do that and people see that, it'll help. Not in all cases, but in most cases.”
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“From due in six hours of TV I became the go to guy, then for sky so alive game are you available yet I'll come down and do it and I did that and then when I got the sack from Bradford they asked would I like a contract? And I said no, but I'd like to keep my face in the shop window so I did one broadcast and then Stoke came along. and I got that And then that job turned sour pretty quickly after three months, and then I just fell straight into sky, the broadcasting. And so eventually. The nineteen ninety nine the producer of Sokati said, would you like to come and join the team?”
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“I was lucky, fortunate, the first broadcast of the football league was Sunland vs Sheffield United at Sheffield, and they rang me I was manager of the month with Bradford. August we won four games and drew one, and they called me and said would you come and be the pundit? So I said, yes, Sheffield Dalny rode from me and he said no, you've got to come into Sky in West London. I came all the way down. Marcus Bookland the presenter was his first day, and it was a double header six hours of TV obviously ads in between and all that sort of stuff half time and that and Jerry Francis was doing the second game. So that's where fate took a hand. I did the first game Sunland won at Sheffield and Jerry Francis got stuck on the M four so I did the double edder.”
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“Would you give me? I say it to everyone. Work hard and you'll succeed. Don't ever turn down work Don't ever say on a job or this is hard I don't like it anymore I can't do this do it do it and do it to the best of your ability and see where it takes you know TV is one of those jobs I think where if you work hard enough you'll succeed in football that's not the case you know I've grown up in football and you sometimes a lucky break is better than working hard even you've still got a workout but you need breaks and of course you need breaks in TV but if you were I think you get them. I started off at Sky and so People say how did you get into Sky in nineteen ninety eight? Well, initially I was a pundit for em.”
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“My life has changed in terms of granits, material things anymore. the love ye are for you know your kids kids is something else so I'm one of those now even though I'm still working my main priority is spending time with them”
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“Yeah. It's funny I did the ITV games and a YouTuber was called Young Philly. I'd never met him before Brizoni first show and he sees me before we go broadcastin' and he comes and he starts doing that he went you're a god I went I'm young Philly pleased to meet ya Do you know one icon you are for black people? And I went Nah don't be Darby went you are you're a trailblazer You know you did TV before diversity You know how did you get into TV when you you know on skysboards and there was no black people around and all that sort of stuff you're an icon and I went no Don't see myself as anywhere, well, you've been my inspiration, so makes you feel good for a second”
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“It's like anything else you take it for granted your old self. You do things. You know that tribute that Sky gave me, that's reserved for someone who passes away, isn't it? You know, so I've had the tribute while I'm still alive, that people don't get when they go, you always look back and think you read the obituaries and the comments and things. Why didn't people say that you know? So I think maybe I should have bowed out then, you know. Taken the accolades and said thank you Am I tarnish in what I've got what I had”
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“Strange strange in terms of I feel a fraud now in terms of broadcasting I don't bring to the table what I used to that's hard my life away from the screen could be any better you know grandkids In our family You know, it's perfect, unique. Yeah. I feel I'm doing these programs and And then getting thee best of me, but they're tolerating me, you know, that's how it feels.”
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“The anxiety was terrible because I was knowing I wasn't the old me, so I went to see him and he said look I can chure the other problem the apraxia is a biological condition so I can't help with that but we'll try you know and see if we can get you through things so getting rid of the anxiety help me finish work or the work I had stacked up UK strongest man games right TV all those shows cash in the attic I present So they helped me do that and all those treatments. I'm taking so many vitamins these days and I've just been introduced by Winford to the neurologist in America, and he said because I have good days there's no reason why I can't be cured, so I've sent off a load of blood tests and everything to America, and I'm just waiting on the results”
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“Yeah, it's helped, you know. I'm I wouldn't say more than sixty percent the old me, but you know, I was twenty percent, you know, so I've gone up 40% for a hyperbaric tent, you know, with the Oxyon recommended I do that and I see a there of this who helps with the speech and help my anxiety working for sky Became very difficult. You know, before I even came out and said I've got it my heart would beat like mad before they came to me at sky”
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“Yeah, the Da went on GMB and spoke to Ben Shepherd. And Kate, I got a phone call immediately from a fellow that I knew. And he said I can cure you, you know. I know there's people out there that'll help. To get you right, so he said I want you to come and meet Professor Nicholson down at Sheffield University. So I said okay, so I met Wimford and the professor anyway between em they were saying you need to kick start your cerebellum which is in the back of the brain What's happened is it shot down so we need to get the jump leads out started again and get your brain going get your speech going and there are various ways to do that So I said yeah, what are those? I'll do absolutely anything to try and get it right so he got zinc performance which is really Exercises for stroke victims, but it's helped my balance.”
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“Well, Jeff's a really close pal, and he knew there'd been something going on for a while he kept saying to me, Are you all right? I said yeah, I'll find ya. Don't worry, I'm fine. He said, Well, you know what's going on? So I said on just had a couple of bad days and stuff, but I'll be fine on Saturday. Then he'd send me a text and say you're not fine again. I said I'll be all right next week or whatever. But he said. You can't pull the wool over people's eyes who know you real well, and he was great, you know, the tribute that Sky gave me which, like I said, was the right time to leave there. I tried when he cried on the show.”
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“Tom. It was an acceptance really'cause what I said to my wife is if I wasn't a broadcaster it wouldn't matter would it and so she said yeah so I said you know now's the time about a great time I spoke to my agent Simon Dent and said look I'm getting out of all this and he said yeah you can now don't worry I'll leave it up to you and Yeah, I thought that's it. Quit I've done my time and I'd like to thank all the people that have been persistent and said, Look, A twenty five percent came is, you know, still better than some people, you know?”
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“I think it was the right time to leave Sky. I had a great innings, but BBC, ITV Channel four and channel five said no, no, your cami doesn't said while it's the quality of the problem. You'll find we want you to do this and would you believe I'm now? Doubly busy the morale was”
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“It feels like someone is taken over my voice books, so the voice that used to come out would come out at three hundred miles, you know, you've seen me on the results and soccer Saturday, you know, motor mouth talking, not even waiting for a breath, just keep going and going. Now when I hear myself or see myself on TV it's someone else it's strange, it's really strange some days, you know that message from the brain to the mouth is really slow and makes it difficult or some days the words come out different than what you try to say that's even weird And so that's been hard to accept and still hard to accept, I have to say, you know I was gonna quit everything literally every single bit of TV at the end of last season Leave sky quit BBC quit ITV quit channel four and five and all those companies”
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“My boys had been sane to my wife there's something wrong with that for a while and she saw like would broach him with me, but I'd be quite snappy, which I'm not anyway, you know, and say no, I'm fine, I'm fine, don't worry about it, I'm fine. And I kept thinking like I said, once I got the thyroid problem, the level thyroxin' old take it away and then Still with me and Yeah, it's harder for people closer, I think, you know, because my two boys say now you're kind of, oh yeah, I'm fine. I've just had a bad day, you know, don't worry, I'll be fine. But they know, you know, you can't pull the bull over their eyes for too long.”
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“That went on for quite a while I went to see a therapist and he kept saying to me look you need to tell people you know you can't continue on TV and people are saying is he drunk and what's the matter with him as he had a stroke you need to come out and say something I said I can't I can't I'd rather quit than actually say something Anyway, eventually. spoke to my mate Men Shepherd Told him what was going on, so he said low. Come on GMB I'll show about it and let the world know what's going on.”
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“Right, how do you know? I can tell straight away the difficulty between the brain and your mouth being able to speak, you know, it was probably slower than it is now at that time. So he said look, I want you to go and have a dat scan, which is which rules out Parkinson's or stroke and all that sort of stuff. I did, went back to see him with the result for the results, I should say, and he went The good news is you haven't got Parkinson or anything like that. The bad news is you know we can't find anything else wrong with you so Apraxia will probably get worse. And, you know.”
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“Go back to my GP and tell him what's going on he's got the report from the brain scun so he said he won't give up my GB he says It's not obviously a thyroid there's something else going on Would you go and see this doctor Lily and Leeds he's a specialist So I'll go and see doctor Lily in Leeds and before Abony said hello to him and before I can even chat to him he says you've got apraxia of speech”
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“got diagnosed with underactive cyro was all my prayers answered at once you know you've got an underactive thyroid take levo thyroxin once you find your level of levyroxin you'll be fine gray doctors great sortinow so eventually you take twenty five grams or whatever it is of levoltyroxin eventually when you find your level you're fine so i get to one seven five and my thyroid is stabilized ball my voice condition is still exactly the same so what's going on so my doctor then says go for a brain scan I'd go for a MRI scan anyway and see a brain specialist. He looks at the x rays, the MRI scan, fine, not a proper, nothing wrong with your brain. It's got to be something else that's going on.”
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“Too well, but I always shrugged it off I'd take, you know, tablets and be fine the next day and all that sort of stuff. But it wasn't going away and I thought what's going on but I ignored ignored it which is the worst thing you can possibly do so I would get away with it home by hardly not being the person I was not talking as much when I'm broadcasting for sky I'm trying to keep minimalistic because some of the words are coming out slurred and stuff like that so Eventually I've got to go and see someone because I literally went A whole year, if not twenty months before I actually”
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“Ah well it's funny, you know it's really funny I did going through lockdown initially the first lockdown in March. When the weather was great everyone, you know quite Know, I think they were gutted about the lockdown, but the fact you were at home and the sun was shining, things were slightly different. I did loads and loads of shows from home, you know, celeb juice and steps back lunch, ITV, Lorraine and stuff like that skysports from the barn at home. So that was fine. So all of a sudden I began to not feel well.”
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“To be honest, I wouldn't say it's helped me or help me. I think Sinsavadis while I've got two conditions an underactive thyroid and apraxia the underactive the thyroid plays with your emotions so I get a lot more emotional now whereas stuff I wouldn't even bat an eyelid in the past because of this little butterfly thyroid in my neck it now makes me more emotional.”
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“It made you wary of other people. Obviously, you know not happy, but I wouldn't say oh God, it's traumatized me or something like that. And then the Black Lives come out and people start telling their stories of racism and the way they've been treated. You think why can't I tell my story now? And I have done.”
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“And the lads were all gone and I went on, it's fine to be honest I was underage anyway I was seventeen But that didn't matter back then I'd been going in the pups since I was fourteen, you know So I went no no it's fine anyway Mickey Mellows one of my teammates said I'll bring you a pint out but that was the first time that my teammates realized do you get that often and stuff like that I said yeah occasionally but part of life you know you get on with it”
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“Yeah, that was in Weatherby. I'd played for Portsmouth at Sunlin. and nineteen seventy six, I think Sumlin needed to win to get promotion to the what is the Premier League now the old First Division We needed a win to stay up in the old second division What is the championship now anyway Sunlan won that day Always remember that game for two reasons not just the Weatherby incident I drank champagne for the first time Sunland sent a case of champagne into the dressing room because they've got promoted that day so we get on the coach every virtually every team now played Stunlin on Newcastle would stop at Weatherby for fish and chip. So, uh... So we stop. So we all pile in the pub most of the players and the barman says we don't serve his kind in here.”
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“No wall was horrific, but not just for me as a black person. It was for any footballer that went there, you know, basically, but even harder for me, I can always remember once again, if you ask me about my career and there's, you know, lots I forget, but the first time I took a throw in there, the ball went out and they kept the ball initially. It wouldn't give me it. And then eventually it got through on to the pitch, and the Fans are virtually there, and you're taking a throwin' from there, so I'm sort of like taking this throwin' and all of a sudden spit is on the back of my packet I never took a throwin' ever there again”
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“I was eight years old once again that was the time where I could light the fire and go to the shops to get cigarettes so you went with a note for the shopkeeper so it was Tim Woodbines for mine wom and twenty capstan full strength for my dad so I went to the shop gave the note to the shopkeeper and he's getting this woman came in the shop anyway she asked for a pint of milk or loaf of bread I'm not sure of those details and he said I'm serving this young man here she said Eslot should go back to where they came from and I thought I left five doors away from you you know I'm not, you know, from somewhere else and he said no. and I went out with ringin' in our blacks and so and so shouldn't be”
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“And he wasn't happy, so I spoke to the navy and said, Look, would you do me a favour? Would you give me a letter saying if it don't work out as a footballer, I can go my kidney navy and they said yeah fine so I got that letter sent it to Dad and it sort of like made him”
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“was fine, was okay, and then there's a six month period then where you can decide if you want to stay in the Navy or not. So I went back to see him and he kept saying no, no, no. And then one day I was running round the track while the Navy football team and he said look we're two players short I'll play on one side you play on the other just out on the wing and you'll be fine So I said okay anyway I scored two goals from the wing and got drafted straight into the team straight away and the rest is history We played Portsmouth And navy sighed, I scored another two goals against them they asked how old I was, and they bought me out for the magnificent sum of two hundred pounds, and my dad I found my dad and I told him what was happening.”
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“Yeah, when the Navy football team were training there, so I went down to One day and I asked the coach if I could train with him and the team and he went nor. There are three reasons one you're on trial, so what it did you were on a trial situation, whether you liked the Navy or they like you, and if not you could leave. So he said come back in six weeks if you want. And the other thing, he said number two, he said is your black and these lots. Kick lumps out ya, so to speak, and the third thing is you're too skinny. You're not going to be strong enough to play in the Navy football team. So I said, okay. Anyway, got to six weeks.”
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“Yeah, Plymouth, yeah, so you know it's common and not Devon, but it's a stone's throw. And that's where I got my lucky break, yeah.”
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“Um... Not good, I have to say, not good. It was one of those things I left Middlesborough boys were in a semi final the week before I was going in the Navy, so I knew I had this final coming up when I signed semi final coming up when I signed for the Navy so I was thinking hopefully the semi final and final of the Middle Boys will be over but I played the semi final and then I didn't get in touch with Debritcheson to tell him I wouldn't be there for the minor because I was off to Tall Point in Devon Well Comfrost the water from Plymouth”
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“Dave Richardson was our coach at Middles, came round my house and said to my dad There's a chance not guaranteed that Chris will be taken on as an apprentice at Middlesbrough and he went no he's not going If he stays in Middleborough it'll become he'll be in trouble with police He made my brother join the army, and he made me join the navy literally frog march me down to the recruitment of his and sign on the dotted line. Can you imagine you know, well I can't imagine doing that to my kids, you know? And in a way, I think that worked against me with my kids because I never pressurized my kids to do anything at all, you know, let them do whatever they wanted, whereas I probably could have been a little bit more in terms of football or you know But I want whatever they wanted to do was my wish and I think that came from my dad.”
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“Everything yeah I used to play on the field near our house with again scrum men from the age of twelve and I wasn't bad, you know and they would try to kick lumps out of this little kid who was embarrassing him so yeah it stood me in good stead when I played against men at sixteen I couldn't look after myself”
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“Yeah, footballer No danger, playing for Middlesbrough initially, and then when I saw Leeds on match of the day round May South. Borough all lads year ambition to play for Borough, dream to play for Leeds So footballer nothing else tunnel vision yeah”
2022-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Chris Kamara: The Untold Heartbreaking Story Of A Football Legend · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She was everything you could want in a mum she would do anything for me. Um... And she did my dad never saw my school report from the age of five until I left school at sixteen. She protected me that way so yeah but no neither, you know mum's a great and She looked after the family As good as she possibly could, and you know she was my world.”
2022-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Chris Kamara: The Untold Heartbreaking Story Of A Football Legend · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I made the mistake of telling my doubt on my death on his deathbed. That it was wrong. he certainly wouldn't accept that he'd done what he'd done so you know”
2022-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Chris Kamara: The Untold Heartbreaking Story Of A Football Legend · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it was Don I presume my dad grew up with it. And so you thought it was okay for him to do it, but like I say, you know, my kids will probably listen to this and I don't want to say too much on it.”
2022-09-12 · The Diary of a CEO · Chris Kamara: The Untold Heartbreaking Story Of A Football Legend · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT