Jermain Defoe: ‘bereavement changes you completely. It makes you strong’ http://t.co/qJ3B1BoGWJ via @guardian
Jermain Defoe: 'bereavement changes you completely. It makes you strong'
When Jermain Defoe arrives for breakfast, he has only one thing on his mind. “Seen my mum?” asks the Tottenham Hotspur and England forward. It is 8.30am in St Lucia, the island of his grandparents’ birth, and the 30-year-old who enjoys one of the most close-knit mother-son relationships in football would usually have spoken to Sandra St Helen at least once by now.