I’ve been involved in professional football since 1989. My love of the sport went back to my youth but my business move into football wasn’t planned. Kevin Moran, the Dublin Gaelic footballer who went on to greatness with Manchester United and Liam Brady, who’d taken the more traditional route as a schoolboy to Arsenal before achieving unprecedented success in Italy, persuaded me to manage the Irish international players’ pool. I resisted at first but, in the end, fell for their wily approach of flattery and persuasion in agreeing to take on the role for the 1990 World Cup finals in…

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