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After previous promotions from the National League and National League North as a manager, you’ve just led Truro City out of National League South against all odds. How? It was taking things one game

Born and raised in Melbourne, you joined Celtic’s academy as a teenager. How did that move happen? A youth scout in Australia spotted me and arranged a trial that, to my surprise, ended in an offer fo

You’re known as a footballer and as a musician. Which was your first love? Oh, football. I was crazy about it from as early as I can remember – both playing and watching. Like most people, it wasn’t u

You started your career at West Ham but hardly played. What happened? In my last season in West Ham’s youth team, I scored 19 goals from midfield. In today’s football, I’d probably have got a five-yea

What was the first game you ever attended? Chelsea against Blackpool in 1971 when I was five. I went with my friend Phil and his older brother, who was about 15 or 16 and was looking after us for the

The rise of Union Saint-Gilloise from the second tier to Belgian champions has been one of European football’s most remarkable stories of recent years, and their English centre-back has been at the heart of it