Why fast Eddie is Cats’ pacemaker

ASK any defender — the nightmare forward is the one that takes you on — runs straight at you, runs over you, runs around you, but takes you on.

Rest assured that this week, as the days count down to Sunday’s All-Ireland final, none of the Cork backs rest easy at the thought of facing Kilkenny’s jet-heeled Eddie Brennan.

Fast Eddie from Graigue-Ballycallan has left many a despairing defender trailing in his slipstream as he powers down on the keeper, one thing on his mind. “In sprints, you wouldn’t really notice it (how fast he is),” says teammate Henry Shefflin. “But it’s when he has the ball you see it, he has those fast-twitch fibres.”