NUNO NOW SUFFERING WITHOUT HIS FAMILY

WOLVES boss Nuno

Espirito Santo has revealed his private torment over life as a lone wolf.

The 46-year-old hasn’t seen his wife and three children since early May because they are ‘stranded’ in Portugal.

Nuno (above) prepares his side for tonight’s home clash with Crystal Palace admitting life in lockdown is taking its toll.

He says that while he is a paid-up member of the mission to bring football back to the people, the whole situation is hitting him hard.

Asked how it had affected him mentally, Nuno’s voice quivered: “A lot, not only me – but everybody.

“Those moments when we are quarantined at our homes gives you a lot of time to think and analyse.

“Some of us find our freedom has been restrained in a way nobody could understand.

“I want to go back and visit my family, but I cannot.

“It’s not just affecting football, it’s affecting life. Our freedom has been really, really compromised.”

He added: “The world needs football and I hope it is helping, but at the same time this is not the football everybody wants. When you go to the stadium and you have all these protocols and those kind of things, there is a fear and you look on TV and see all the problems that are happening in the world.

“You cannot get away from that. I still think we are in the middle of a big problem.”

While he accepts football’s return is for the greater good, he feels it comes at a price. “If football is helping people back in their home, this is the spirit of the mission we have as professionals to deliver it, but we are also affected by it,” added Nuno.

“I am inside the industry and as an employee, I have to do my obligations.

“I do it on a daily basis, I prepare myself to do my job.

“But it doesn’t distract me from the whole situation.

“Hopefully things will improve, but if not it’s up to everybody to make their own decisions.”

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