Maybe he wouldn’t still be playing for Tyrone now.

It says something about the stature and skill of the man that we’re talking more about how football will miss Colm Cooper this year than Kerry will miss him.

It’s very possible every top-eight hurling team will improve in 2014.

I can still hear the hurt as well as the dignity in Seán Stack’s voice.

Every year we keep hearing that the national league is the second-most important competition in Gaelic football, but it’s actually not true.

When Billy Morgan and Michael Ryan questioned the GAA’s insistence that in a few years’ time all senior club and inter-county coaches or managers will have to have undergone a recognised coaching course, they had a point.

It still has a heart.

You can observe a lot just by watching,” the quote machine that is Yoggi Berra offered and reading a book on and with Dennis Bergkamp in recent days, we’re guessing the Dutchman would agree.

Steel yourself: it’s coming very soon to a field and a radio and paper near you.

Managers don’t live or die by their decisions but they either win or lose by them, keep their jobs or are fired by them.