Colin Sheridan: Player power nothing new in Mayo
NEW MAN: New Mayo manager Kevin McStay. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Every day’s a school day. A visiting friend from Boston told me last week that the potato was not in fact indigenous to Ireland, but to the Incas of Peru, and only found itself in Europe thanks to the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro who brought the spud back after one of his many conquests in the late 1500’s.
Maybe everybody already knew this and I wasn’t paying attention all this time, but, be that as it may, being told something I didn’t know about the potato as an Irish person evoked the same level of indignity and embarrassment in me that I remember imposing upon a Cork person (is that what they’re called?) when I informed them the players' strike of 2002 was not the original of the species, that there was at least one other industrial action some 10 years before that was responsible for the usurping of a relatively successful management team.
