Colourful character Tierney puts faith in instinct

BENNY TIERNEY may have discarded the goalkeeper’s mini-rainbow jersey but he remains one of the game’s most colourful characters.

Flamboyant on and off the field, he was very much at home in the media scrum which surrounded him at the Armagh press night last week.

He reminds me of Johnny Pilkington in the way he introduces a note of humour into his comments. For instance, he said goalkeepers are "half-mad" and that he's no different.