Portrayal of Donegal is often inaccurate

I’ve always felt managers, coaches and physical trainers get far much credit when their team wins — and a completely disproportionate degree of blame when they lose.

Rumours of Davy Fitz’s heavy-handed treatment of a few Clare lads who broke curfew and went for a night out – while they were injured and not playing in the league – reminded me of a situation that arose in the Kerry squad back during the championship of 2009.

A couple of our characters had a few scoops after a qualifier game, and word filtered back to management. I’m talking about legends of the game here, not young guys who it may be easier to deal with. Instead of going down the route the Clare management reportedly chose, in Kerry it was left to the players to sort it out amongst ourselves.