Deflated Cavan need big display to get revival back on course

NICHOLAS WALSH didn’t think things could get much worse that day as he was ferried out of Breffni Park in an ambulance with a broken bone in his leg.

With 15 minutes to go, the strapping midfielder had collided with one of his team-mates. An innocuous enough incident, but one that still left him with a broken tibia at the bottom of his ankle.

Walsh couldn’t have described the damage with such medical precision at the time, but he knew he was in serious trouble. What he wasn’t prepared for was the news he received when he arrived at the hospital some time later.