Kieran Shannon: There has been no one like Brian Cody

If Cody goes with the same team that started last Saturday, it will mean Cian Kenny will be the 69th different player Cody has entrusted to start in an All Ireland for him

ONE OF A KIND: Kilkenny manager Brian Cody shakes hands with Tommy Walsh of Kilkenny after their side's victory in the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final match between Kilkenny and Clare at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

There’s been nothing like him. Not even Micko, Mickey or Boylan.

As young as Maurice Fitz was lighting it up in his first Munster final back in ’88, becoming an automatic All Star after only his second-ever championship game, he’d been five years old when his manager would have first got the Kerry job 13 years earlier.