Dropping Cassidy may come back to haunt McGuinness

WE were sitting in a café on the Ormeau Road, talking football, when Declan Bogue told me that he was writing a book.

Typically of Declan, it was a fresh concept. He was going to follow the football season of an individual from each of the nine Ulster Counties.

I liked the idea and told him so. I also warned Declan, as gently as I could, to keep his expectations low.