From Boreham Wood FC’s bus to the world of Mugabe, Yeltsin, Bush and Trump

With the Wood one win from reaching the Football League for the first time, a veteran correspondent recalls lessons learned from their amateur daysThe years teach much which the days never know. This weekend Boreham Wood FC go to Wembley fighting for a place in that treasured home of the global game, the English Football League. Why will I be watching 7,000 miles away? Well, the experience of riding the Wood’s team bus 50-odd years ago taught me much that I have carried across our world ever sin...