Tributes pour in as John Galvin retires

John Galvin isn’t on social media.

Yet there was no escaping the gushing comments saluting his retirement yesterday. “I don’t have a Twitter account but a friend of mine rang and said I’m a better footballer now than before I retired!”

From former manager Maurice Horan to a catalogue of team-mates and opponents, they formed a disorderly queue to acknowledge one of the finest midfielders of his generation.