Billy Lee goes with the flow as Limerick look to progress

Billy Lee wasn’t supposed to succeed John Brudair as Limerick football manager. Not in the beginning, anyway.

Brudair stepped down at the end of August and it was a week or two later when Lee was contacted by football board chairman John Cregan. The latter didn’t have it in his head that he wanted the Newcastle West man as manager, rather he wanted him on the six-person committee who would be charged with finding Brudair’s replacement.

Lee agreed, although a family holiday in Lanzarote meant he was absent for their first meeting. The committee convened for a second time on September 22 at the Woodlands Hotel in Adare. Lee showed face on this occasion but was told that a conflict of interest had arisen.