Kieran Shannon: Why isn’t David Clifford up for Player of the Year? Fossa Freak is real MVP

It may be patently clear to everyone in the country that Clifford is the best footballer in Ireland right now. But he won’t be this year’s Footballer of the Year. He isn’t even one of the three nominees

David Clifford celebrates a Paul Geaney goal against Cork. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Sometimes in football as in life people can try too hard to be clever, or at least to be perceived as clever. We want to be viewed as more discerning than the crowd. We, I, see things that you don’t. And so in wanting to look beyond the obvious, we can overlook it.

Which leaves us with a situation whereby David Clifford won’t be the Footballer of the Year for 2021.