Mark Connollly remembers when he was the £1 million kid, wide-eyed and armed with the keys to his Manchester castle.
Bolton Wanderers were a Premier League club at the time and had just handed over that seven-figure sum to Wolves for the Clones lad.
Still four months shy of his 18th birthday, he was put up on his own in a swanky apartment in Deansgate - the pulse of Manchester’s bustling city centre.
