PUT THE WINDASS UP THEM

The Capital One Cup throws together the Windass family today as son Josh plays for Accrington Stanley (who are they?) against his dad's present team Hull City.

Josh broke his leg at 18 years old and was released by Huddersfield Town. Dad was at Hull and in a trough of depression and alcoholsim having “retired” from playing, he had a number of issues to deal with. His family fell apart and in 2012 life was not good.

The pair got hammered by the tabloids and gradually they have rebuilt their lives. Josh is playing successfully in the Accies midfield and Dean is an ambassador at Hull.

Josh is in his third season in league football having suffered at Huddersfield after the encouraging Lee Clark was sacked and the new manager didn't see Josh as part of his plans. He had to get a job on a building site and played a few games with Harrogate Railway in the non-league.

Dean was released from Hull in 1990 and had to slum it working on building sites too, until he was picked up by the Tigers again in 1991. Having been at Barton Town Old Boys and Scarborough Athletic, he is now playing at Walkington FC in the East Riding league

Accrington's manager, John Coleman has started Josh 54 times and watched him score 7 goals.

Dean played 732 games scoring 234 goals at 9 professional clubs from 1991 for 19 seasons.

Josh has three seasons under his belt and wants to follow his dad.

Certainly Dean has always been a character and you cannot fault his playing record.