Pain of the Game
Series in which admirable sportsmen share their stories of hardship, determination and achievement
Pain of the Game - 06/05/2007
6/7. Rodney Marsh has never been stuck for something to say, but the man behind the voice is very insular and private after a violent childhood left deep scars.
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Pain of the Game - 08/04/2007
2/7. Fay MacLeod is the original footballers' wife. But when her husband Ally took Scotland to the World Cup in 1978, she was the one who had to help pick up the pieces.
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Pain of the Game - 13/05/2007
7/7. The death of Damon Hill's team mate Ayrton Senna unlocked boyhood memories of his father racing, but intense rivalry and a passion to win drove him to the world championships.
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Pain of the Game - 15/04/2007
3/7. Alex Arthur is a young man on a mission. Brought up on the rough streets of Edinburgh and a devoted father and Christian, at 28 he will soon box for the world title.
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Pain of the Game - 22/04/2007
4/7. From the streets of the Gorbals to the dug out at Old Trafford, Tommy Docherty saw it all, but huge self belief and love of a married woman brought down his football career.
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Pain of the Game - 24/11/2006
1/7. Zola Budd was born in South Africa but ran for Great Britain in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, but the political and personal storms she left behind soon caught up with her.
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Pain of the Game - 29/04/2007
5/7. Graeme Obree took on the cycling world and shook it to its core with a revolutionary design of bike, but his determination to succeed led him down a road paved with pain.
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