Players win games, management lose them

IT WASN’T quite Bobby Robson enthusiastically moving salt cellars around the table, but Pat O’Shea is plainly energised when he’s talking tactics.

He lives in Killarney, but home is a sideline.

“You know what?” he smiles. “The day of the All-Ireland final was almost an anti-climax, because I knew there were no more matches left last season. We were at our peak and I really wanted to go on and have another couple of games against the teams we didn’t meet in the Championship.”