When Phil Parkinson was embarking on a managerial career that, at one stage, promised to take him to the top of the game, he could not have imagined having a conversation with an A-list Hollywood actor about signing a defender from Charlton Athletic.
Even with his new, voracious appetite for football, Ryan Reynolds cannot have been overly familiar with the qualities of ex-Bury and Rochdale defender Eoghan O’Connell.
But after Parkinson and board advisor Shaun Harvey gave them the low-down on the 27-year-old centre-half’s capabilities, Reynolds and co-owner Rob McElhenney gave the signing the go-ahead. And on Saturday night, after the new recruit had scored a late winner against Altrincham, Reynolds simply tweeted: “eOOOOOOOOOOOOOOghan.”
