Chris Dunlavy

FIGHTER: Alan Judge

Six short years ago, Alan Judge dreamed of playing at Old Trafford and Anfield. On Saturday, his playing career may well have ended at Gander Green Lane.
The 34-year-old Irishman suffered a triple rupture of the ligaments in his left knee in Colchester’s 1-0 defeat to Sutton.

At the front end of 2016, the diminutive playmaker was untouchable for Championship Brentford. Goals, assists and man of the match awards piled up.

But then a challenge from Ipswich’s Luke Hyam shattered his right leg.

It would be nearly two years before he resurfaced; two year...