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Andy Morrison: Ex-Manchester City star goes from battling demons to becoming a champion

Connah's Quay manager Andy Morrison opens up on dealing with depression

By Chris Wathan
BBC Sport Wales

Amid the wait to see what would happen to the Cymru Premier season, the man with more at stake than anyone was the calmest.

Andy Morrison, manager of the side four points clear at the top before the season's suspension, was almost serene as he talked of the uncertainty meaning little in the grand scheme of things.

It was impressive for someone who was so close to leading his club, Connah's Quay Nomads, to a first domestic title.

And it was even more notable to those who Morrison the player, an intimidating, fiercely committed and streetwise Manchester City centre-half.

Morrison the manager has not lost any toughness.

The 49-year-old often appears every bit as uncompromising in the dugout as he was when he was hailed for dragging Manchester City "kicking and screaming" out of the third tier in 1999.

The fire remains, but the destruction it often left behind does not. For Morrison, who has suffered depression and battled with alcohol, calm has replaced chaos.

"I sometimes hear people who are close to me defending me at times, saying you don't know Andy, you don't know who he is or what he's about, but it's just how things are," Morrison tells BBC Sport Wales.

"You can spend your whole life trying to prove people wrong, but it's much easier to prove that you're right. You only have to do that to one person."

Andy Morrison, here challenging Liverpool's Emile Heskey, played for Manchester City in the Premier League having ed the club in the third tierGetty Images

Andy Morrison, here challenging Liverpool's Emile Heskey, played for Manchester City in the Premier League having ed the club in the third tier

Morrison has proven something to himself almost every day for two decades, since the days when looking in the mirror was a far tougher ask than it is now.

"The lowest point? Waking up in a cell in Inverness," he says. "The reality of opening your eyes and seeing the bars and the four walls and that feeling of 'what have I done">