Fogarty Forum: In pictures — 10  shades of Cody handshake

Kilkenny manager Brian Cody and Galway manager Henry Shefflin shake hands after Sunday's Leinster Championship game

THE coldest handshakes never happen. Not once did friends turned foes Davy Fitzgerald and Brian Lohan attempt to seek each other out after a game the past two seasons. To our recollection, Kieran McGeeney and Jim McGuinness didn’t exchange pleasantries after Donegal and Kildare’s epic 2011 All-Ireland quarter-final. McGuinness had taken umbrage with Kildare’s pre-match claims Donegal were committing series of unpunished professional fouls. 

To Brian Cody’s credit, he gives good handshake. Rarely, if ever, has he not pressed the flesh or, in the age of Covid, bumped a first or elbow. Easier to do that when he has been on the victorious side more often than not, says you, but the man is no Diego Simeone: he believes in decorum.