Non-League Paper

I inherited my thick skin from the school of hard knocks

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 June 2018

THE BIG INTERVIEW
DARREN KELLY

By MATT BADCOCK

POINTING THE WAY: Darren Kelly’s upbringing has made him the man he is today and, insets left, Hyde’s David Brown and Kyle Jones score and celebrate against Trafford
PICTURE: Action Images

DARREN KELLY’S first love was in the ring. Five nights a week, he’d go to the Rosemount Boxing Club in Derry to train.
“Box, box, box, that’s what you would do,” he says.
By the time he was 14, he was fighting in championships in Europe. Football was more of a spare-time pursuit until he eventually made...

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