'Other managers wanted big budgets but for Theo Dunne it was about the development of young players, and he gave a lifetime to it'

Theo Dunne handed Stephen McPhail a sock and told him to fill it with cash, jewellery and watches.

It was a job the future Ireland and Leeds midfielder performed on a regular basis for the then Home Farm manager.

McPhail - now the Shamrock Rovers sporting director - was only a kid but a regular presence around Dunne’s first-team in Whitehall.