Paddy Lacey was banned from professional football in 2017 for testing positive for cocaine, he served five months in prison after a subsequent offence, but it was a particular afternoon in Italy, not his downfall, that almost reduced him to tears.
Lacey was watching his youngest brother, Shea Lacey, make his first start for England and he was confronted with emotion.
"It was the first game when I went over to Italy to watch him and they were singing the national anthem," Paddy told the Manchester Evening News. "He’s standing there with the shirt on and I was welling up with tears just thinking how far he’s come."
