Paul Rouse: How meticulous Gavin painstakingly built the Blue Empire

Is Jim Gavin the greatest Gaelic football manager of all time?

Paul Rouse: How meticulous Gavin painstakingly built the Blue Empire
Sun, 01 Dec, 2019 - 21:19
Paul Rouse

Is Jim Gavin the greatest Gaelic football manager of all time?

The basis of all historical judgment must be context. And Jim Gavin would surely be the very first to acknowledge the good fortune of his timing.

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