After a troubled start ‘best keeper ever’ Stephen Cluxton is living up to hype

The world was a much different place in May 2001, when Stephen Cluxton made his first Championship appearance for Dublin.

The Irish pound was still in circulation, the Foot and Mouth disease had just taken hold and the World Trade Centre towers were still standing in New York.

As for Dublin football, it was crying out for a little inspiration after six seasons without success and it arrived in the unlikeliest of forms; a goalkeeper just out of the minor ranks.