Success on the field is underpinned by strong foundations off it

It’s still difficult to wrap your head around the tumultuous goings on in Offaly last week, following their defeat to Wicklow in the Leinster football championship.

The pictures of their now former manager, Stephen Wallace, with a hoodie over his head, as he sat alone at the back of the stand, were like something out of a bad spy movie.

Wallace was serving a suspension for an incident in a club championship game in Kerry, and was incognito as he relayed messages through a walkie-talkie from his position on high.