Game Offers Me an Escape but I'd Give It All Up to Have My Son Back ; Quashie Tells How Pouring His Heart Out to a Stranger Stopped Him From Turning His Back On Football and Letting Tragedy Take Over

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ANY Scotland footballer who turns up at Glasgow Airport tomorrow harbouring the usual grudges about contracts, club bosses or colleagues will count themselves lucky when they meet the player whose troubles dwarf those trifling grievances.

Four years ago, Nigel Quashie watched his baby son, Tyler, die only five-and-a-half hours after being born.

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Game Offers Me an Escape but I'd Give It All Up to Have My Son Back ; Quashie Tells How Pouring His Heart Out to a Stranger Stopped Him From Turning His Back On Football and Letting Tragedy Take Over

The distraught father's sense of loss was so deep that he considered quitting football altogether.

Quashie was one of Britain's most exciting talents but football mattered little as he mourned his child. He fled to the U.S.A in the summer of 2000 and, although he returned to England, he s...

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