Al Pacino, Cork u-21 football and passion in sport

WE ARE driving to Páirc Uí Rinn to see a lad we know play in a Cork under-21’s football final.

It is a first for me (yes I know it’s important to open your mind before you close it and all that, but opening my mind to sport has always felt exactly like opening my mind to aubergines, which I’ve never liked, nor ever will.)

In the car, we’re listening to Al Pacino’s pre-match “inch by inch” motivational tirade from the sports film, Any Given Sunday. The lad we know lent it to my husband.