I’ve said it before, but Robert Green must be the nicest goalkeeper in the English Premier League. Here’s proof. He’s just returned from a trip to the slums of Nairobi in Kenya where he had been on a sponsored climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. His thoughts after talking to Kenyans who have, of course, just been through a period of civil conflict:

“They watched from a maize field as people were hacked with machetes and burned alive…Footballers live in a bubble. It’s a wonderful life but I want to experience other things. I can’t remember what I did for a holiday last summer. But I’ll remember this trip forever.”