Sutton’s Premier League predictions v legendary boxing manager Kellie Maloney
Maloney tells her story in ‘Knock Out Blonde – the authorised documentary of Kellie Maloney’, which is available to stream now on digital platforms.
She is a lifelong Millwall fan but is also a season ticket holder with Portuguese side SC Farense, who are based near her home in Portugal.
“I follow two teams,” Maloney told BBC Sport. “Millwall, because they’ve been my team since I was three years old, and Farense because I spend a lot of time at my house on the Algarve.
“Unfortunately Farense are bottom of the league at the moment, although we did get our first win of the season before the international break – the winner came with the last kick of the game and it was like winning the World Cup.
“We don’t win many games, but we do have probably the second-best goalkeeper in the Portuguese league, Ricardo Velho, who was in the latest Portugal squad. He was only on the bench because Diogo Costa of Porto is their number one, but it was the first time in the club’s 114-year history that a player at Farense had ever been called up by Portugal.
“And everyone should watch out for our former players like Mohamed Belloumi, who left to join Hull for 5.5m euros in August. It’s the highest fee Farense have ever got for a player, and he scored a couple of goals against Cardiff recently.
“Before he left, I sent a message to Mark Bright, who is an ambassador at Crystal Palace, and also to Millwall saying that they should come and have a look at this kid, because he has only just turned 22 and he is going to be worth a fortune soon.”
