Micah Richards has credited Manchester United legend Andy Cole with giving him “life changing” advice early in his playing career.
The two were teammates at Manchester City at the start of Richards’s senior career as the defender – who went on to make 245 first-team appearances for the club – was promoted to the senior squad for the 2005-06 campaign, when Cole joined the Citizens from Fulham.
Richards has now detailed how legendary striker Cole, one of the Premier League ’s deadliest marksmen of the 1990s who spent seven years at Old Trafford, gave him an invaluable lesson. The revelation comes in the former defender’s new book ‘The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.', which is published later this month.
