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Smyth’s scripts are simply best-sellers

John Lyons

BACK in 1986, Ian Botham returned to the England cricket team after a three-month drugs ban and with his first ball dismissed New Zealand’s Bruce Edgar to equal the then world record of 355 Test wickets. Team-mate Graham Gooch, who took the catch, famously said to Beefy: “Who writes your scripts?”
Well, it may be more than three decades later, but QPR and Northern Ireland forward Paul Smyth also appears to have a scriptwriter with a sense for the dramatic. Signed from Linfield last summer, few had even heard of him before he made a sensational entrance for QP...

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