Leinster chief hits out at ‘cult of the manager’

LEINSTER COUNCIL chairman Liam O’Neill believes some inter-county managers have become too big for their boots and has called on them to foster more civil relationships with their county boards.

Speaking in yesterday’s programme notes at Croke Park, the Laois man traced the “cult of the manager” back to the Dublin-Kerry games of the 1970s when the clashes were portrayed in the media as head-to-heads between Kevin Heffernan and Mick O’Dwyer.

“The role and status of managers has evolved to a stage now where some managers see themselves as more important than the county boards which appointed them,” said O’Neill.