Wythenshawe’s Stephen Ireland in action during the charity match against Blackforge FC in Baldonnell. Photo: Frank McGrath
“There’s Emile Heskey,” says the man on the gate. “Jaysus, he looks much older, doesn’t he? He must be nearly, what, 60 by now?”
Heskey, the 47-year-old former Liverpool and England striker, is wearing one of those long quilted manager jackets that go down to your lower shin, the sort Arsene Wenger inadvertently invented internet memes with a decade ago.