Andy Morrison had three options: “Carry on drinking, take my life or find a solution.” The 48-year-old will walk out today in Inverness as manager of Connah’s Quay Nomads in the Irn-Bru Cup final, 20 years after a night of chaos in the same city that was the trigger for two decades of sobriety.
Born in Inverness and brought up in Kinlochbervie, the fishing port on Scotland’s north-west coast, Morrison’s tale is one of redemption. It could have been very different.
Just before his tenth birthday, Morrison moved to Plymouth as his father was re-stationed in the Marines. As a child he was attacked and physically abused by two men in the toilets of a public park in the English city. It was an event
