The Big Interview with Craig Cathcart

'I've learned to adapt and love life here'
By Chris Dunlavy

Craig Cathcart spent the best part of a decade at Manchester United but never made the breakthrough at Old Trafford.
As the Northern Irishman runs through his rivals for a berth at centre-back, it isn’t hard to understand why.
“Let’s see,” says the 33-yearold Watford defender. “We had Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Wes Brown, John O’Shea. Jonny Evans was ahead of me. Ryan Shawcross was a year above. The bar was pretty high back then!”
Yet it was almost scaled. In the spring of 2007 a defensive crisis hobbled practically every cen...

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