A night for head and heart, but mainly heart

Well, yes, and here we go again… But before we get into ‘Dane-ja vu’ or even ‘Oh, Dane-ger here’ territory, a word of two about the headlines that got away on account of Troy Parrott being so inconsiderate towards us hacks as to refrain from crowning his senior debut, at the ridiculously tender age of 17, with the goal or two or even three which we were all demanding.

On the way into the Aviva on Thursday evening, I bumped into a colleague who was rubbing his hands at the thought of the Troy wonder doing enough to warrant the admittedly rather excellent pre-prepared headline: ‘Who’s A Pretty Boy, Then?’.