BBJ
Father Of The Forum
I saw this article in today's IRISH INDEPENDENT.
He'd certainly get into the all-time best ever Villa team but might Paul McGrath be our best ever player?
It is one of the great regrets of a lifetime in football that I never got to manage Paul McGrath.
He left St Patrick’s Athletic a couple of years before I took over there and the great man was sadly retired from football by the time I took over the Irish senior team.
But I did spot Paul’s talent before anyone. Yet a bit like the fella who didn’t sign the Beatles, I did nothing about it.
It was just when I was packing it in as a player and starting to dabble in management.
I was doing a bit of both, I was neither one nor the other, neither truly player nor manager. I had joined CYM in Terenure, whose pitches were just down the road from the old Sunday World offices there, on a loose sort of a deal that I’d play and manage a team as well.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...paul-mcgrath-in-his-dalkey-days-38748954.html
He'd certainly get into the all-time best ever Villa team but might Paul McGrath be our best ever player?
It is one of the great regrets of a lifetime in football that I never got to manage Paul McGrath.
He left St Patrick’s Athletic a couple of years before I took over there and the great man was sadly retired from football by the time I took over the Irish senior team.
But I did spot Paul’s talent before anyone. Yet a bit like the fella who didn’t sign the Beatles, I did nothing about it.
It was just when I was packing it in as a player and starting to dabble in management.
I was doing a bit of both, I was neither one nor the other, neither truly player nor manager. I had joined CYM in Terenure, whose pitches were just down the road from the old Sunday World offices there, on a loose sort of a deal that I’d play and manage a team as well.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/so...paul-mcgrath-in-his-dalkey-days-38748954.html