Sir Bobby Robson is the only Englishman to have managed more Champions League matches than TNS boss Craig Harrison.
Harrison is yet to progress further than the second qualifying round as he plots the latest campaign in European football’s elite club competition for the Welsh Premier League champions. But whatever happens when TNS face Swedish champions Hacken later this month, it’s fair to say the 45-year-old is already a winner.
Twenty years ago, Harrison turned his back on the game after a promising playing career which saw him force his way into a Middlesbrough team that featured Paul Gascoigne, Paul Merson and Juninho was ended at the age of 24 by a devastating injury. Like Gascoigne and Merson, he was plunged into a battle with depression after suffering a double stress fracture of his left leg - until football offered salvation.
