football

Following that it is back to football and another qualifi cation campaign with Wales for the European Championships in 2012.

“People are saying that this is our chance now. We have got players playing regularly in the Premiership and this is as good a chance as we have had for a while,” he said.

“People want to be there because they can sense that something special might be happening.”

For Sam Ricketts it is another fence to be jumped, but a very different set of obstacles to the ones he thought he would be facing when his sporting career started.

words Roger Hughes pictures Steve Pope

Football’s Hurdles

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