Gift of gab earns Stephen Hunt a way back into football

A personal phone call to Coventy City manager Tony Mowbray earned former Ireland international Stephen Hunt a short-term contract with the Sky Blues.

Hunt had been without a club since leaving Ipswich Town at the end of last season and Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph of the Waterford man's efforts to get back into the game: "I was sitting at home watching a match on the telly about ten days ago when my phone rang.

"It wasn't his agent or a third party trying to open a deal, it was the boy himself who asked if he could come and train.