There is one simple reason why David Moyes should never have got the manager’s job at Manchester United.

Although it mightn’t seem like it at first, but today’s column is about Rory McIlroy.

I’m an ideas man.

He will be an old style uachtarán. He will be a figurehead and an ambassador.

It’s about 9.30am on Sunday morning and our 16-seater bus has turned left onto the Via Borgo Palazzo in Bergamo.

If Dublin win, Gavin’s spirit for adventure will be a cause for celebration.

Unlike many of my journalistic colleagues, I welcomed the news Davy Fitzgerald hadn’t attended the Clare press night which was held before Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

It must be the northern air. It must be something. What else can explain the way successful managers are treated at the tip of the country?

In the furore over Hawk-Eye, it is extremely important people don’t miss the really crucial ‘point’: Hawk-Eye is not the problem. Umpires are.

He was so extreme, and the insult he directed at Cavanagh was so over the top the rest of the panel felt obliged to restore some balance to the discussion.