Dublin manager Jim Gavin: ‘The game is evolving... we have to keep pace’

Jim Gavin sits more or less motionless when giving interviews. The few movements are slow and every bit as refined as the crisp shirt and suit but the man is slippery as an eel when the tape rolls.

Calmness personified, he evades verbal curveballs with ne’er a blink of an eye.

Answers emerge stripped of anything remotely related to controversy — unless he wants it that way. The drawbridge is never lowered, especially when the conversation centres on him.