The incredible story of Patrick O'Connell: FC Barcelona's saviour

As Dubliner Patrick O’Connell was becoming one of Spanish football’s most successful early managers, his Irish wife and four young children were struggling to make ends meet in Manchester, all the while wondering where their supposed breadwinner had disappeared to.

“When my grandfather disappeared, nobody had any idea where he had gone,” Mike O’Connell tells the Irish Examiner.

“But for a short time, he sent money, small amounts. On the envelope it said Santander, Spain, and that was the only clue.