‘It’s a shadow over the World Cup right now - a black cloud’: Belfast-born former USA midfielder talks Troubles, Trump and tracing childhood footsteps

Brian Quinn came so close to featuring when the World Cup last took place in America – but in the stars and stripes rather than the green of his native country. Now, as the US gets ready to co-host the latest iteration of football’s most famous tournament, the Belfast man tells Neil Loughran why, despite off the field issues, there is still something special when the big one rolls around…