2018 may prove to be Brian Cody’s biggest challenge

I was driving home from an underage coaching day in Kilmacud Crokes in Dublin last Saturday when a friend texted me. “Some Walsh Cup final in Nowlan Park,” he said. “It sounds like an epic.”

I didn’t know Brian Cody had been sent to the stand by that stage but I soon found out when I started twisting the radio dial before eventually locating South East Radio.

Billy Byrne was on live co-commentary so the Wexford slant was coming in hot and heavy. It was some craic coming down the M7. It definitely shortened the journey.