Towards the back of the Laithwaite Community Stadium’s tin-roofed Directors’ Stand sits a long-disused telephone block terminal, once required to connect the football ground to the outside world. It is a relic almost as old as the stand itself, which has changed little in more than a century.
During a playing career primarily spent in the Premier League, trips to such non-league curiosities as Woking’s home ground were a rarity for Jermain Defoe; the type of banana-skin venue a world away from the glamour of football’s top flight.
