Chris Kamara reveals heartbreaking reason why he apologised to his wife - after battle with speech apraxia forced the former footballer off TV screens

Chris Kamara has opened up connected wherefore helium apologised to his woman Anne aft being diagnosed with apraxia. 

Kamara has endured a tortured travel with code apraxia - a uncommon neurological information that affects your quality to talk - that has resulted successful him stepping distant from respective broadcasting roles.

The 67-year-old was 1 of the game's astir amusing and beloved personalities during his 20-year tenure successful beforehand of the cameras and astir notably connected Sky Sports News wherever helium shared a memorable narration with Jeff Stelling.

But 2022 saw Kamara heartbreakingly forced to springiness up his assemblage aft helium received a diagnosis for code apraxia, a uncommon neurological upset which near him slurring his words.

Apraxia is simply a little-understood information that affects the body's quality to execute earthy centrifugal functions and Kamara has undergone aggravated code therapy successful a bid to get backmost connected screen.

Kamara has present revealed that helium didn't scope retired to his family, including woman Anne, aft archetypal feeling symptoms of the condition. 

'They spotted the signs (that I was struggling). I should person talked to my woman Anne, for which I person apologised to her. I didn't archer my woman what was going on,' helium said. 

'My household would person supported maine alternatively than idiosyncratic I didn't know, Anne, and my sons would person helped maine successful the archetypal place.' 

On the therapy helium has been undergoing, the erstwhile midfielder added: 'I kept thinking, for implicit 18 months, that it would spell away. I conscionable kept reasoning 1 time I'll aftermath up and I'll beryllium backmost to the idiosyncratic I was. 

'But I person accepted the mode I talk now. And that's due to the fact that of the enactment connected my intelligence health.

'My therapist told maine that the time you judge your information is the time you volition commencement getting better, and that is what happened. I tin beryllium my ain worst professional but my code has improved and I'm good with however I sound.'

On Boxing Day Kamara returned to broadcasting arsenic helium provided sum of the crippled betwixt Nottingham Forest and Tottenham for Amazon Prime Video.

Kamara had a lengthy playing vocation which saw him correspond clubs including Portsmouth, Swindon, Brentford and Leeds. He besides had spells arsenic manager of Bradford and Stoke.

As good arsenic his enactment connected Soccer Saturday, Kamara besides presented Goals connected Sunday for Sky Sports.