How The Man From Kilrea Achieved Remarkable Goals.

(From Newsletter)

AMID the drug scandals, boardroom wrangles and murky transfer deals of modern football - and that's just at one club - the story of Martin O'Neill is a refreshing throwback to a bygone era.

Here is a man who helped his Nottingham Forest side win two European Cups and captained Northern Ireland to its greatest football achievement.

Yet when he finished his playing career, rather than sit back on a huge pile earned through signingon fees and merchandise endorsements, he tried without much success to sell insurance, before taking his first managerial job with Grantham, two divisions below the Vauxhall Conference, for pounds 60 a …