By Matt Badcock

CULT HERO: Ashley Vickers was part of the successful Dagenham & Redbridge side of the early 2000s
PICTURE: Alamy

ASHLEY VICKERS was used to battling against some of Non-League’s most potent forwards in his playing days – now those bumps and bruises have come back to bite him on his bike!
The former Heybridge Swifts, St Albans City, Dagenham & Redbridge, Weymouth, Eastleigh, Newport County and Dorchester centre-back recently saddled up in the name of charity to cycle from London to Paris.
Vickers and his team from Tristone Capital spent four days riding the 309 m...