Versatile Henry a cornerstone in Dublin’s bid for glory

WE’VE all been there, gazing out at a beautifully manicured pitch, soaking in the atmosphere of the heaving stadium and wondering what it would be like. To be out there.

The colours of our dreams may differ – today they will break down into either sky blue or green and gold – but common themes connect them all. In our mind’s eye we imagine what it must be like to score that breathtaking goal, pluck the leather from the ether or tip that thunderbolt around the post.

Few of us contemplate what it would be like to spend the afternoon in the corner of defence, shadowing the opposition’s best man, doing whatever it takes to impede the guy we all paid hard-earned cash to see.