Respect mantra can be the catalyst for club success

A few years ago the good people in Croke Park got so incensed about one of these columns that they sent a rather spicy letter of rebuke to my newspaper.

The article which provoked my public upbraiding had outlined my opinion of referees.

In short, I maintained that most of them were motivated by either money or power, and that a great deal of them were appallingly poor. I stand by every word. Given my previous comments, the following revelation might come as a great shock to the powers that be, and an even greater one to the men in black.