Alan Brogan’s All Star snub shocks brother

History of a sort was made this week when the All Star football nominations appeared for the first time in 10 years without the name ‘Brogan’ attached, but Bernard Brogan believes only one of the famous Dublin siblings has cause to be aggrieved.

Bernard Brogan had no issue with the absence of his own name from the 45, but the 2010 Footballer of the Year was surprised to see elder brother Alan had failed to do enough to make it.

Alan Brogan returned from an injury that cost him the entire 2013 season at an age when many were predicting retirement, yet produced a sequence of influential displays that helped Dublin to another Leinster title and as far as an All-Ireland semi-final.