Sonny Pike interview: The greatest footballer that never was tells his story

🔙 ⚽️ For those of a certain age, the name Sonny Pike conjures up the memories of the 1990s and a happy young English kid with a head full of curls who, by 13 years of age, was so good at football that he was being courted incessantly by the English press and media who bestowed him with the moniker of ‘the new Maradona.’ Even writing the phrase down now, some 30 years after Sonny arrived into the nation’s conscience, feels inherently wrong and hints at the type of attention he would receive on an almost daily basis.