After years of hurt, can Mayo cope with winning?
“Seamus, you’ll never see a poor day,” the fan guaranteed him. Seven years later, the man who scored the most famous goal in football history climbed aboard a boat to the UK with 50 quid in his pocket, borrowed from a friend.
“I probably stayed out at night drinking and celebrating when I should have been at home with my wife and kids,” admitted Darby in an RTÉ radio documentary aired last year. It wasn’t all the free drink that drove Darby to emigrate, that was more down to business difficulties, but Eugene McGee, Offaly’s manager at the time, noted in the documentary how Darby became a ‘prized commodity’ and, ‘for a year or two was brought here there and everywhere, all over the country’.
