Former Newcastle United great Andy Cole was one of the Premier League's all-time greatest goalscorers, holding the joint record for the most goals scored in a 42-game season with Alan Shearer until only recently.
And with such a successful career under his belt you'd expect to be schooled in the art of goalscoring when spending an hour in his company. But in a recent interview with The Mirror, the 51-year-old delved into the life of his coal miner dad, whose story was recently shared in a Northumberland exhibition.
Cole is a direct descendant of the Windrush generation, with his dad Lincoln emigrating to the UK from Jamaica in 1957. He went on to work as a coal miner in Nottingham for 22 years, from 1965 to 1987.
