Sean Maguire’s redemption song

It’s the earliest of days for Maguire at Preston, but already there are grounds for hoping he can add many more verses to the redemption song he began in Cork, writes Liam Mackey.

It must have been a bitter-sweet sensation for Cork City fans watching Sean Maguire hit the ground running — and, of course, scoring — for Preston North End this week.

New strip, new team, new home but, from the perspective of Leeside, the same old Seanie, wasting no time in negotiating a route to goal and, at his first attempt, delighting the denizens of the Deepdale version of the Shed.