Johnny Carey, a man who chose to fight in a war he was exempt from, was a rare breed on and off the pitch. It's players like him who've made us the club we are today...
It was, as the veteran scout would late relate, the "air of authority" that struck him most forcibly. Though the boy was comfortable with both feet, great in the air and especially good with his chest, he had something else: an indefinable quality that set the pulse racing, stood the hairs on edge. A presence that, to a seasoned observer like Louis Rocca, stood out a country mile.