Clare snipers don’t realise how much they’ll miss Davy Fitzgerald

On the morning of September 29, 2013, Davy Fitzgerald sat alongside the Liam MacCarthy Cup and spoke for the first time about the fabled MiWadi and biscuits, all the while doing his best Frank Sinatra impression. He had done things his way.

He spoke of how his players made him feel so young. It was a very good year. He didn’t exactly say the best was yet to come but he had high hopes.

Lifting the cup at one stage as he answered a question about critics, Fitzgerald spoke as if to say “they can’t take this away from me”. Or words to that effect, anyway.