sentences:  However he was arrested by a plain-clothed policeman and sentenced to probation in Children's Court for playing football in the street.He later credited his ball control skills to the many years he spent playing football with large numbers of other children in the tight streets of Cabra.His father and brothers were in the printing trade, and his brother Ollie, a talented footballer, rejected the opportunity to turn professional at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1950 in order to remain employed in Dublin as a machine minder and play football part-time in the League of Ireland.