Ryan recalls Fitzy’s timeout

Like Joe Kernan smashing his All-Ireland losers’ medal off the Croke Park dressing-room wall in 2002, it will go down as one of the iconic managerial interventions.

Colin Ryan looks back now on Davy Fitzgerald’s decision to invite all the Clare players back to his homeafter losing the Munster semi-final to Cork last June and has mixed feelings.

After going on to win the All-Ireland title, at Cork’s expense, Fitzgerald’s revelation he fed and watered the players with MiWadi and biscuits in his living room has entered hurling folklore.