Linvoy Primus - Transformed

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In Primus' early teenage years he played for his local Sunday league football club, Pretoria, based in Canning Town after being introduced by a school friend. A Bosman transfer to Portsmouth followed after three successful seasons at the Berkshire-based club. In December 2006, he took part in a Football Focus feature on faith in the game presented by fellow Christian footballer Gavin Peacock. The match took place at their substitute stadium Upton Park in November 1992 and Primus was awarded man of the match for his performance.

Primus also agreed to take on an ambassadorial and advisory role to help guide emerging talent at Portsmouth, as well as a playing role. She previously represented England at the youth level and played in the United States for California State University-Fullerton and Chelsea Women [68] Primus and Trish married on 9 June 1999. The following season saw Primus remain a regular member of the Portsmouth team under first Redknapp and then both his successors, Velimir Zajec and Alain Perrin.Despite the previous season's heroics, Primus was not used regularly in the early part of Portsmouth's first Premier League season. As Linvoy tells of his Christian journey he hopes that his story and life experiences, will encourage, challenge and inspire others to have a relationship, like he has found, with Jesus Christ. Amongst all the star names at Portsmouth Football Club in recent years, no player has been more popular than Linvoy Primus. It was more about the people, doing the right things and I spoke to Marieanne (Spacey-Cale, manager) a couple of times and always had good conversations and I’ve heard great things about the team, about the club, the staff, everyone.

Although Primus was a regular member of Perrin's team at the end of the 2004–05 season and captained the side on occasions during pre-season, he rarely featured until Perrin's sacking in November. Portsmouth's chief executive Peter Storrie confirmed that Primus would retain his ambassadorial role. After his inclusion in the New Years Honours list, we spoke to fan’s favourite and now-MBE Linvoy Primus about his faith, career and life after the beautiful game.

It was later revealed that Clemence was told by his assistant, Terry Harvey, that he should sign him immediately: "Get in now and sign him, if he goes down to Cardiff and sees their stadium he will sign for them. Once again, he was runner-up in the Player of the Season award, this time to the goalkeeper Maik Taylor. The church was more "laid-back" than the one that Primus attended as a child and he, with the rest of his family, became regular churchgoers in 2001. I know God has an amazing plan for my future and that He will continue to use my football gifting for His glory. At the end of the season, Primus was free to leave under the Bosman ruling and received an offer from Luton Town which he accepted.

In his autobiography he wrote that church was "a cold unwelcoming place" for him as a child but that it "instilled in [him] a very strong sense of right and wrong". Finally he talks about how his Christian faith impacted how he looked at his career and how it affected the way he played. And, yeah, just everything about it, from the staff to the players, I think there’s something special here and I wanted to be a part of that. As my confidence in God rose my relationships improved and I even began to play without fear and as a result perform to a higher level than I could have ever imagined – I even became “Player of the Season”!

Linvoy shares his inspirational story of his life in football and how through his amazing conversion to Christianity, he triumphantly overcame disillusionment, lack of self-belief and numerous rejections which led to a life and career that has been totally transformed.

He was also involved in supporting the Alpha course, which is run all over the world, and is designed to explain Christian beliefs and promote discussion.Following my time at Charlton Athletic as a young footballer and my other experiences at Barnet FC and Reading FC I realised that football could be a hard and heartless industry and that fame and fortune does not make you happy. Born in Forest Gate, England, to Caribbean-born parents, Primus began his professional career at Charlton Athletic, where he made four league appearances. This was also a time when depression was common for Primus, and he became addicted to alcohol and drugs such as ecstasy and LSD. But the 2002–03 season signaled a change in direction as Primus broke into the first team and won Portsmouth fan's player of the season as well as the PFA Fans' Player of the Year for his division.