Wrestler Mick McManus who may or may not be some kind of relation to Koand.

Koand’s memoirs open with a story about how he and his mother were frequently asked if they were related to the tv wrestler Mick McManus as they shared this last name. This wrestler is identified as the “man you love to hate” in the book and it written that he and young Koand had in common - a stocky physique and plastered down black hair. So maybe they were related. Perhaps young Declan’s boisterousness watching this wrestler is what got him packed off to watch his father perform on Saturdays at the Hammersmith Palais.