Anthony Daly: Outrageously, the snipers in Clare are already lining up Davy Fitzgerald

Davy Fitzgerald is already unfairly under pressure as Clare manager, writes Anthony Daly.

In the last few years, Dublin have suffered some desperate defeats at the hands of Kilkenny: Last year’s Leinster final, the 2011 Leinster final, the 2010 provincial semi-final, and the capitulation at the same stage in Portlaoise in 2012, when Kilkenny were Panzer-like in their demolition of the Dubs.

Yet, what is conveniently forgotten among all that debris, are the handful of good results Dublin have mined: The 2011 league final, the 2013 drawn and replayed Leinster semi-finals, the 2009 Leinster final, when the Dubs had them really rattled. You also have last year’s league win in Parnell Park, the 10-goal epic in Nowlan Park in 2012, which we lost on the line, and some Kilkenny lad jumped the wire, hopped on my back afterwards and hit me a dunt.