By Matthew Nash

PASSION FOR THE GAME: Jermain Defoe, and with the McDonald’s Fun Football vending machine, inset
PICTURE: Alamy

JERMAIN DEFOE has exclusively revealed he is in talks to buy a Non-League club, as the former England striker spoke of his love of grassroots football and how ‘special’ he finds the pyramid.
The 41-year-old, who hung up his boots in March 2022 after a second spell at Sunderland, has since worked as an academy coach with the Under-18s at old club Tottenham but it can now be revealed he has a project in the works lower down the football pyramid at an unnamed te...