Colin Sheridan: How Gavin avoided all unnecessary attention with the same quiet control he did that melee in Tralee

What will be telling is just departed Dublin manager Jim Gavin next step. Does he withdraw from public life, J D Salinger-style, never to practice his hard-to-define sorcery again? Or, does he do the circuit? asks Colin Sheridan.

“Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose their games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing”

- Gay Talese.