I always had a love and passion for football, even from being very young. I was always running around, just loving kicking a ball about. My father was very clear, very early on in my life, about what this meant.
“You’re going to support United.”
It was in the blood anyway, so it almost went without saying. Everyone in our house, all my cousins, my entire family, we all supported United. There was no getting away from it at all, even if I’d wanted to. So, naturally, Old Trafford was always on my horizon.
My first trip over from Ireland was during a family holiday driving through England and my dad made sure we stopped off to pay a visit.