IN an era when foreign players dominate the higher echelons of the game, Sunderland manager Roy Keane maintains that at the core of every club there should be local heroes.

Former boss Glenn Hoddle believes the next Chelsea manager will be on a “sticky wicket” due to owner Roman Abramovich’s influence.

LEAH GRANT said the day she removed her father, Richard Walsh, from Leas Cross nursing home would haunt her until she died.

SO, Steve Hansen has gone back to the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’, joining fellow Kiwi returnees Graham Henry and Wayne Smith in their bid to capture the Webb Ellis trophy for New Zealand for the first time since 1987.