It is quite bizarre, especially since the turn of the century, for an African player to idolize Paul McGrath.
McGrath is not a household name, particularly in our part of the world (Africa).
But what if I told you deep in the heart of Dansoman, a suburb of Ghana's capital city, Accra, there was a young lad who idolized the relatively unknown McGrath?
McGrath played for Aston Villa and Manchester United, but it was at the former that the center-back, who could be deployed as a defensive midfielder, earned his famous moniker, 'god'.
