The people making a difference: the powerchair football coach leading his team to victory

Chris Hammans started coaching the side after his son Lewis took up the sport. Now, after Lewis's death, Chris is determined to continue

Chris Hammans' son Lewis was football-mad. He got it from his father. The two were close. He was my best mate," says Hammans, a 52-year-old pharmaceutical production manager from Haywards Heath.

Lewis was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes muscles to weaken over time, at the age of four. He didn't have the mobility other children in his nursery had," says Hammans.