A day that will require Davy Fitzgerald to suspend the waves of emotion

The first time I managed Dublin against my own county, in 2009, we had the chance to officially relegate Clare from Division 1.

Mike Mac was manager of that team. Ollie Baker and Alan Cunningham were part of his backroom team, just as they had been part of mine a few years earlier in Clare. A lot of the players who had played under me were still around.

Johnny Callinan texted me with a reference to Denis Law, the Manchester United legend, whose back-heeled goal for Manchester City in 1974 appeared to have relegated United, although they would have gone down anyway.