After my first season at Aston Villa, having been part of the club’s Russian tour in the summer of 1961, the club was informed that an Irish selector was coming over to watch me play in a Central League match against Chesterfield. This news didn’t have me climbing the walls or anything like that but at the very least, I knew I was on the radar back home. But what I couldn’t have known then but later came to know very well, was how ‘the big five’ went about their business.

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