rich 1.0 Chris Kamara spent a weekend convinced he'd lost his job. He'd been standing in the corner of the pitch at Portsmouth rather than up on the gantry, back to the game, when the red card was shown. Jeff came to him live. He had no idea it had happened 🤷‍♂️ He rang the producer on the way home. Ben Shephard told him they were showing it on Goals on Sunday and Kamara begged him not to. By Monday morning it was on Chinese television, Dutch television and Fox Sports 😅 He's back with Jeff Stelling for the first time since leaving Soccer Saturday, and they go through all of it on this episode of The Jeff Stelling Show 🙌 On his health: He's open about where he is now. Three years ago he couldn't have done a show like this. He's been to Monterrey in Mexico three times for treatment on his brain, and his family have told him that's enough - that he should stop chasing the person he was and accept the person he is now ❤️ He describes what it was like when the apraxia first took hold. Thinking he had dementia or Alzheimer's. Knowing the words were there but not being able to get them from his brain to his mouth. Doing Soccer Saturday through lockdown with his memory going, and being so embarrassed he wanted to walk away from everything 😢 What got him through was asking for help, which he calls the best thing he ever did. He says he never believed in mental health until it happened to him, and that bottling it up does nobody any good. He's now patron of six charities and is pushing for AI funding to support children who can't speak, because speech and language therapists are spread so thin that most see a child once every six months 🙏 And the rest of it: José Mourinho ringing him at home the night he'd refused to say a word to 5 Live after Chelsea's controversial game against Burnley - and telling him he was coming on Goals on Sunday tomorrow and Kamara was going to say it for him. Then Sean Dyche ringing an hour later with the opposite version! Getting Bradford promoted as caretaker from 16th in the table, with fans on the pitch at Hull and a winner in the fifteenth minute of added time 🏆 Growing up in Middlesbrough in the sixties, when the police would arrest his father because neighbours told them a burglary was probably down to the black family round the corner. Plus the stories of Jeff and Kammy together - Gaelic football, Sri Lanka, a broken Aston Martin, 32 miles in a pair of loafers, and the only man alive who still gets away with calling Jeff Stelling "Carly" 🤣 If anything here sounds familiar, you don't have to deal with it alone. Samaritans are free, 24 hours a day, on 116 123. 🎧 Enjoying the show? Follow The Jeff Stelling Show wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode, and leave us a rating and review - it really helps new listeners find us. Enter Jeff's Big Giveaway - For FREE 🚨 Enter NOW 👉 https://www.olbg.com/kammy AD | Jeff's Big Giveaway from OLBG Prizes: win £500 cash plus £2,000+ in instant wins. Free to enter, 1 entry per person. Closes 7.30pm, 31 Oct 2026. 18+, UK only. Full T&Cs: https://www.olbg.com/kammy #ChrisKamara #JeffStelling #SoccerSaturday #UnbelievableJeff #Kammy #SkySports #JoseMourinho #EltonJohn #SeanDyche #BradfordCity #LeedsUnited #Middlesbrough #PremierLeague #Apraxia #Football #FootballPodcast #OLBG #GoalsOnSunday #BenShephard #NinjaWarrior The Jeff Stelling Show https://audioboom.com/channels/5169171-the-jeff-stelling-show Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43562042/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8958974/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>