 Mick's younger brother Ollie Kearns was also a successful professional footballer, but as a goal scorer not keeper.He enjoyed a high-scoring League career throughout the 70s and 80s with Reading, Walsall, Hereford and Wrexham; then scored the newly founded Rushden & Diamonds first-ever goal.As of 2015, Kearns still lives local to the Walsall area in Aldridge.