The Sunday after the Brighton match was supposed to be a recovery day. For the players, it was light stretching, pool work, massage, the gentle, unglamorous business of putting broken bodies back together. For me, it was anything but quiet.
The JJ story had exploded.
Someone in the press box had done their homework and connected the dots between Danny Walsh, Moss Side Athletic, and the nineteen-year-old Brighton substitute who had scored against his former mentor.
By Sunday morning, it was everywhere. The back pages ran with it. The Mail on Sunday had the headline: "THE KID HE LEFT BEHIND: JJ Johnson scores against the man who discovered him."
