There can be few things more irksome and irritating as a GAA player than losing a game in Croke Park and then finding you’re one of the players being drug-tested straight after.

In sport, you can’t get too comfortable in your surroundings. 

Chris Mannix: Well, like I said friend, you got me at a bit of a disadvantage.

Finally, someone else said it.

A few months before Bryan Cullen would become the first Dublin man in 16 years to lift Sam Maguire, the then director of football operations at Chelsea, Mike Forde, spoke at a conference in Liverpool about a bit of a continuing professional development tour he took in on Stateside.