Len Gaynor: ‘Those couple of words turned him inside out’

For the €25 or whatever Fergie is asking, you could learn about leadership this week from a man who has done it all and may never stop cashing in. Or you could have saved a few bob and pulled into a field in Ardcroney, six miles outside Nenagh.

Any Wednesday night for the last 20 years, you could learn how a club can be led from the top or the bottom, as long as it’s led from the front.

In the field you’d find Len Gaynor, Kilruane MacDonaghs’ greatest hurler — three All-Irelands, four Munsters, three Railway Cups, three Tipp SHCs — surrounded by boys and girls as young as four.