Paul Warne's voice cracks as he fights back tears. The Derby manager is remembering his father, Russell, and how he always thinks of him when he sees the sun rise.
Russell died from a lung condition in June 2019 and is never far from his son’s mind. When Derby face West Ham in the FA Cup fourth round at Pride Park tonight, it will put one of the most interesting characters in the game in front of a national audience.
‘When the sun comes out, I think it’s my father, because he loved the sun,’ says Warne, who played for five clubs across 15 years before taking his first job in management at Rotherham in 2016.