The Forde focus

Allstar and Player of the Year accolades have done little to satisfy Mattie Forde’s desire for success. He spoke to Colm O’Connor.

FOR a man reportedly bed-ridden with the flu, Mattie Forde is looking remarkably healthy in the midst of Wednesday’s lunchtime rush at Gorey’s Ashdown Park Hotel.

Forde shrugs off the media’s latest update on his wellbeing. It is part of the territory in weeks such as this. If he coughs too loudly, its pneumonia. If he plays badly, it’s a bust-up. Any titbit from Wexford featuring the surname Forde ahead of Sunday’s Leinster showdown is gobbled whole.