Little boy blue

Soccer correspondent Liam Mackey on Hill 16, GAA tactics and Dublin humour.

SO here I am, a speck of grey in a hill of blue, a stranger in a familiar land, a Dub in Croker who might as well be from Laois.

Or Laos. The mistake can be easily made. Con Houlihan tells the story about the day his father misread a headline in the paper. "Riots in Laos," it said. Houlihan senior wasn't surprised. "That crowd above in Laois are always causing trouble," he remarked.