‘Liam would only leave Celtic for United’

THE man who helped launch Liam Miller’s career with Celtic admitted yesterday he had been concerned by the Ovens lad’s youthfulness when he first sought a place on the FÁS course that he was running in 1995.

Mick Conroy was head of the FÁS course in Cork and explained: “Liam was only 15 when he sought to join the course and I wondered about his schooling.

“But his mother Bridie came to me with a letter from his headmaster which said that Liam had left school and was free to pursue any career he wished, so we signed him up.”