“YOU’RE going back, and you’ve got no choice. You’ve gotta be persistent with it,’” Brad Strand imitates his father’s firm stance during his teenage years at Liverpool’s Kirkby ABC. “I kept going and eventually found me way. Happy I stuck at it now [laughs].”
Now, as a lesser-known member of Everton Red Triangle’s thriving stable – whose catalogue of contenders includes Nick Ball, Andrew Cain and brothers Peter and Joe McGrail – the once-reluctant Strand plans to justify his father’s stern stance by stealing the shine from Maidstone hotshot Dennis ‘The Menace’ McCann.
Contrasting the bold and showy McCann, who has amassed an Instagram following
