Tread softly because you tread on their dreams

For those who do get to live the dream, how much harder then must it be to have to let it go and wake up to grim reality, asks Liam Mackey.

Tread softly because you tread on their dreams

Your starter for 10: what have Arsene Wenger, Sean St Ledger, your humble correspondent and, for that matter, just about anyone who has ever kicked a football, got in common?

The answer is that we have all been seduced and, occasionally tormented, by dreams of glory.

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