Let the players talk or let their legends be lost

WHEN I was a boy, I always wanted to be able to play football like the legendary ‘Sonny’ McCann (RIP).

Any readers under 89 years of age will probably not have heard of Sonny.

He was on the Derry side that won the National League title in ‘The Year of the Big Snow’, otherwise known as ‘The Year of the Short Corn’ — and sometimes referred to as plain old 1947.