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CHRIS DUNLAVY meets Roy McDonough, sent off 22 times in his career, after rejection cost him his chance of a top flight career with Aston Villa and Birmingham

ROY ‘Red Card’ McDonough was 16 when he tried to strangle the referee in a schools cup final.
“The bloke was a prize p***k,” remembers McDonough, now 53. “He was headmaster of another school who I used to batter every time we played. It was his chance for revenge and he was giving me nothing. I took it for a while, but then I snapped. I still remember his feet swinging where I’d picked him off ...

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