KEVIN NICHOLSON LOOKS BACK ON A CAREER OF HIGHS AND LOWS

By MATT BADCOCK

TORQUAY UNITED had just won promotion to the Football League at Wembley but Kevin Nicholson wasn’t celebrating in the dressing room with his teammates.
Instead, he was in a small room in the bowels of the national stadium with a drug tester desperately trying to provide a sample.
“It was about 80 degrees at Wembley and I was dehydrated,” Nicholson recalls of that May afternoon in 2009. “There are all these pictures of the lads in the dressing room popping champagne and I’m not in any of...