FIRST ADE

Seattle defensive coordinator Durde creates history

- KEITH WEBSTER IN San Francisco

ADEN DURDE revealed he knew the day before the game that something special was on the cards after he became the first British coach to win the Super Bowl.

Durde, whose football life started as an amateur player at Finsbury Park in London, was hired last year by Seattle head coach, Mike Macdonald, to be the Seahawks defensive coordinator.

Macdonald was renowned as a defensive genius before becoming head coach two years ago and, along with Durde, he has turned Seattle's defence into a ferocious unit that hounded Patriots quarterback, Drake Maye, in a nightmare evening he will want to forget in a hurry.

Maye was pressured all night, sacked six times and intercepted twice, one of those being run back for the clinching touchdown as Seattle won their second Vince Lombardi trophy and first in a dozen years.

“We had an unbelievable practice [on Saturday]” said Durde. “It was locked in. The communication was great, the body position was great.