Richardson has Cork all at sea

DAMIEN RICHARDSON has news for those who might like to think that the life of a professional footballer is all fun and games.

Says the Cork City manager: "I was down on the beach in Fountainstown last Monday in a howling wind with George O'Callaghan, Neal Horgan, Joe Gamble and Danny Murphy, all nursing horrific ankle injuries from the game with Drogheda. And we were out knee-deep in the sea because I'm a great believer in the recuperative powers of the sea. We were out there like five lunatics - the old ladies sitting in their cars must have thought we were absolutely mad."

When informed that there was once a famously eccentric Cork band called Five Go Down To The Sea, Richardson chuckles and suggests: "The noises we were making in the sea could be akin to a bad rock band."