The many sides of Andy Reid

Football might be his living but it’s not his whole life. The gifted midfielder tells Liam Mackey about his passion for music, literature, history and the game he loves, as well as addressing his controversial exile from the Irish team

YOU’RE talking to a top professional footballer so it’s hardly anything out of the ordinary when he names his favourite player of all time as Maradona.

(“It’s almost like he had an aura around him on the pitch, like in a religious picture”).

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