The story of a one-time prodigy offers a harsh reminder of how players can struggle when football's lavish comfort blanket is removed Maybe, looking back, all the hype and expectation didn't help. "The most natural goalscorer to emerge from Everton's ranks for years," it said in the programme at Goodison Park in February 1996. Michael Branch had never kicked a ball for the first team at that point but those words stuck. They were used against him when it became apparent he was not, after all, an...
Michael Branch's fall from Everton to prison offers cautionary tale
The Guardian - 10 Nov 2012 23:59
The story of a one-time prodigy offers a harsh reminder of how players can struggle when football's lavish comfort blanket is removed Maybe, looking back, all the hype and expectation didn't help. "The most natural goalscorer to emerge from Everton's ranks for years," it said in the programme at Goodison Park in February 1996. Michael Branch had never kicked a ball for the first team at that point but those words stuck. They were used against him when it became apparent he was not, after all, an...
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