Retired Super Eagles and Wolverhampton goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, is in full remission after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia 13 months ago and says he feels grateful to savour simple pleasures again The footballer has in an interview with Guardian discussed how he felt when he was diagnosed with the cancer. He’s always been a positive person, he said, but the diagnosis left him devastated. It was the doctor at Wolves. I remember him talking about Stiliyan Petrov and Geoff Thomas, and I knew what it was. I was devastated. He said that at first, he thought, “Why me?” But then he realized he’s had a blessed life, had lived his dream, so why not him. The first day or two maybe, you do think: ‘Why me? I’m not a bad person.’ But then afterwards, I thought: ‘I’ve been overly blessed in so many ways that other people haven’t. I had a baby daughter, another one coming, I got to live my dream by playing football for a living, so why not me?’ His children, though, were all the mo