Justin Walley has the huge responsibility of directing their dreams as he returns home carrying the hopes of a nation searching for their own
Justin Walley was a long way from home.
The 47-year-old coach from the small market town of Hinkley in Leicestershire was used to seeing his staff placing cones and talking through the afternoon’s drills ahead of training sessions.
But his staff were nowhere to be seen. They were somewhere across town, at differing stages of a six-hour wait to withdraw some money from the bank.
“There was a chance that you may not succeed in getting your money at the end of it,” Walley says.