My friend Bill Wright, who has died from cancer aged 81, was a teacher, a Welsh international race walker, a fluent speaker of Spanish, and a supporter of Nuneaton Borough football club for 47 years. He was a man of eclectic tastes and talents.
Born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, to Kit (nee Pritchard) and Percy Wright, a schoolteacher, Bill was brought up in south Wales until the age of seven, and then Southampton.
