Paul Rouse: Visionary Danny Blanchflower was a man ahead of his time in football

The Northern Ireland and Spurs legend deserves to be remembered. 

Northern Irish professional footballer and midfielder with Tottenham Hotspur, Danny Blanchflower pictured typing on a typewriter in a hospital bed as he recovers from an injury at St Mary's Hospital in London in 1963. Pic: J. R. Watkins/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The Premier League is back this weekend; it doesn’t feel like it ever really went away.

Now that Caoimhín Kelleher has left Liverpool, no Irish player has a realistic chance of being on the league- winning squad.