Wanting to work at the elite level of sports science, Shayne Murphy took a leaf from Roy Keane's book as a young man and wrote to every club in the Premier League asking for a role.

One club answered and Shayne, from Rathcormac in Cork, went on to spend more than a decade in England and Scotland working for the world's top clubs including Liverpool and Manchester City.

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