on Episode 33 of the podcast, I was delighted to welcome former professional football Brendan Moloney on for a chat.

What happened next was a very insightful chat about how a teenager from the small town of Killarney in the south west of Ireland found his way over to one of the biggest and most historic clubs in the UK, Nottingham Forest FC. A club stepped in history, double European Cup winners, leagues and FA Cups and of course one of the best managers in English football history, Brian Clough.

We discuss that journey and his time at some other league clubs in his 234 appearances in the English Football which is an amazing career. He has played under some top managers including Colin Calderwood who gave him his debut at Forest and Chris Wilder who managed him at Northampton Town before he went on to do heroics with Sheffield United and get them to the premiership.

We also talk about how he rubbed shoulders during his career with Sven Goran Eriksson, Sol Campbell, Kasper Schmeichel and Jimmy Floyd and played against players you may have heard of like Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick, Marcus Rashford and Zlatan Ibrahimovich :)

Unfortunately Brendans playing career was cut short due to a recurring injury and since retirement he has moved home and got into coaching locally for his boyhood club (and my last club) Killarney Athletic FC and also Kerry U17's which he will be starting with again soon all going well. Brendan got his UEFA B license and is about to embark on his UEFA A one and is showing the same passion he had for playing into coaching and from 1st hand experience watching him operate, I just know he's going to be a huge success.

A very down to earth and driven individual from an early age was fascinating to me and how he adapted to being a young professional football which led to him graduating form the academy and reserves at Forest to play in the 1st team.

A wonderful listen guys, take that hour, sit down, relax and take a listen to not just somebody who was a top professional but Brendan is a top human being too.

Enjoy it guys and if you do please, share, tag and rate the podcast on apple podcast, lets get this to as many people as we can.

Thanks Michael