Stuart Lawrence is addressing his audience on the spectacular playing fields of Danes Hill School in Surrey, one comprised mainly of young football prospects and their parents, and he finds himself reaching for a famous old line. “It was Albert Einstein who said that the true measure of intelligence lay in the power of the imagination,” he says. “So keep on hoping and dreaming.”
For Stuart, it had started with an idea. How could he link football – the sport that so obsesses him – to the legacy of his brother, Stephen Lawrence, whose racist knife murder in 1993 and the bungled police investigation have been among the great sadnesses of our times?
