Forward the only direction Darcy knows

Before you say it, before you even think it, there is no conspiracy.

It’s another three months and more until the black card comes in so rub out those lines between Declan Darcy’s position on the Football Review Committee (FRC) and his role as Dublin selector.

In all truth, as soon as Jim Gavin gave him the call to get the band together again (Darcy had stepped away from their successful U21 set-up because of a family bereavement) he tapered his commitment to the Eugene McGee-led group. Anyway, the St Brigid’s man would have disagreed with Gavin on the black card, the manager more a fan of the sin bin.