Lee Carsley's replacement as England Under-21s boss comes from a football family which includes a former Manchester City duo and ex-Liverpool player Danny Murphy
With Carsley in temporary charge of the senior squad for the Nations League games against Ireland and Finland, Manchester-born Ben Futcher has been getting his feet under the table as interim boss of the under-21s, who face Northern Ireland tonight and Austria on Monday.
After spells at Boston, Grimsby and Peterborough, Futcher returned to the north-west with Bury, where he made more than 100 appearances and was part of the squad which won promotion from League Two in 2011. He then went into coaching, initially with the Shakers, where he started out working with the club’s young players and youth team graduates.
Writing for Daily Mail in 2023, Murphy recalled: “I remember as a kid cheekily telling them I’d be a better footballer than they were and Paul rubbing my head as if to say, ‘Not likely’.
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