Lou Macari made over 400 appearances for Manchester United.
His career began at Celtic and he also played for Stoke City, as well as the Scotland national side.
Lou Macari runs a homeless shelter in Stoke-on-Trent, but when COVID-19 came along the former footballer was forced to shut it down.
With 46 residents with nowhere to go, he came up with this solution.
Credit to BBC 5 Live – full interview here:
Lou Macari runs a homeless shelter in Stoke-on-Trent, but when Covid-19 came along the former footballer was forced to shut it down.
With 46 residents with nowhere to go, he came up with this solution.
Read more from his interview with @StephenNolan https://t.co/6iTQETeCjj pic.twitter.com/mMZ2bYxMzb
— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) February 16, 2021
“I took the view, I can surely get a roof over their head, I didn’t for one moment think I could do much more than that.”
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