Roy Carroll
Roy Eric Carroll (born 30 September 1977 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh) is a Northern Irish footballer who is currently playing for Greek Superleague club Olympiacos. He is a goalkeeper and is best known for his spells at Wigan Athletic, Manchester United, where he won a Premier League winners medal and the 2004 FA Cup and Olympiacos where he won the Greek Superleague and the 2012 Greek Cup. He has also represented Northern Ireland 24 times at full international level, gaining his first cap in 1997, aged 19.
Carroll has also had a one-game managerial career, leading Barnet to a 2–1 victory in the 2011 Herts Senior Cup final against Stevenage. Therefore, Carroll holds the unusual honour of having won a trophy in his only game as a manager.
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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched seabeams glitter in the dark near the Tennhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.”
—David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Roy Batty, Blade Runner, final words before dying—as an android he had a built-in life span that expired (1982)
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)