Since poetry, according to playwright Somerset Maugham, wears the crown of literature, Marvin Sordell is the king of football.
When the shadows were growing longer, and depression was suffocating his career on the pitch, Sordell wrote a poem called ‘Denis Prose’ – an anagram of depression – which became his definitive work.
It may not be Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley or Wordsworth, but none of them saw their talents wither on the vine after being sold for £3million from Watford to Bolton on deadline day.
Denis Prose was an imaginary car passenger, Sordell’s morbidly powerful alter-ego, accompanying him on the drive home from training.