When inter-county manager is just too powerful

There are those managers who control the lives of the men under their stewardship to such an extent that they can hardly think for themselves.

Driving the highways and byways of the country these past few weeks, it was fascinating to record just how many great inter-county managers’ houses are built on higher ground.

We can think of at least half a dozen All-Ireland or provincial winning managers whose abodes overlook roads, rivers, farmland or bays.