‘We don’t talk about disabilities. We talk about football’

If you had a setback in life like Simon Baker, you’d hope to react in a similar way; with a kick.

After a dark period marked by heavy medication and failed surgical procedures, he made the call himself and decided to have a leg amputated below the knee.

Afterwards, as is understandable, Baker sunk into depression — or “a lot of doom and gloom and one thing and another” he tells me this week.