Take a bow, unsung heroes

TYPICAL, no-one has ever bothered to pick the greatest team of (allegedly) under-rated players of all times in the games of the Gael.

Take a bow, unsung heroes

To make this team, a candidate must be regularly described in dispatches as “not getting the full credit he deserves”.

No harm either if you can add “there is much more to his game than you realise”. And, in passing, a sly dig in the ribs to “the marquee names in the team who get all the headlines — but without this man, they’d be nothing”.

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