Former Sunderland defender Denver Hume has opened up about the "really tough period" that led to his early retirement from football at 28. Hume had not played since October 2025 after suffering a bleed on the brain during a training session with Fleetwood Town, something then manager Pete Wild said seemed to be "an innocuous collision" at the time. A product of Sunderland's academy, he made 84 senior appearances for his boyhood club between 2018 and 2022 - the most he made for a team in his career.