TOO CLOSE

MANY people worried for Tony Davis. The one-time England international, former Army boxing team head trainer and ex GB coach was in Istanbul. He was taking the Bahrain boxing team, that he’d set up, to a tournament. But he contracted Covid-19. He was struggling to breathe. He had to go to a local hospital. There it only got worse, worse than anyone looking in from outside Turkey at first realised.

“Much worse. Let me tell you, if you get just a sniff of what I went through, then you’d understand it. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. To be honest, I don’t know how I got through it. I wish I could say it was because I was thinking of my daughters, I was thinking of this, I was thinking of that… There were times when I couldn’t contact anyone, there were times when I’d just roll over, just hope it would all go away. I’ve never experienced anything like that. I’m just glad to be here and feeling a little bit.