Brian Kilcline: ‘I loved playing but the footballer is not who I am. It’s something I did’

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March 30, 2017 at 10:00PM

The tough-tackling centre-half who lifted the FA Cup for Coventry City in 1987 can now be found at home in Holmfirth with a nine-metre long metal dragon, a mermaid, gothic doorways and Finn MacCool

It is hard to know where to start but the fact that Brian Kilcline has a nine-metre-long metal dragon in his house feels like as good a place as any. “We call it Ouroboros – the name of the dragon that eats its own tail,” explains Lynn, Kilcline’s wife, smiling as she looks up towards the ceiling. “The main lights for here are stored in Ouroboros’s body.”

Elsewhere there is an elaborate candelabra with a giant spider, a crossbow on the stair wall, gothic doorways throughout and a couple of huge green legs dangling down from the loft conversion. “That’s Finn MacCool from the Giant’s Causeway, he’s bigger than me,” Kilcline says. “There’s a mermaid up there as well. She’s lying on AstroTurf, to give the impression of a garden. Lynn made them both, using push fit piping for the skeleton. We had to drive them back from our home in Portugal, so we sat them in the back – you can imagine what that was like at passport control in Spain.”

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