But has always been very good, always exhibited class on and off the pitch, always puts his team before himself, and plays for the most-celebrated soccer team in the world.
From the kitchen-sink ordinariness of the working-class Belfast upbringing towards stardom on the pitch at United, renown as a Sixties socialite and eventually the infamy of alcoholism with the despair and trouble it brought.
And with Daryl Tuffey ruled out with a broken finger, 19-year-old batsman Williamson - who averages almost 50 in first-class cricket - could yet also earn himself a call is the pitch dries out, said Greatbatch.