Long: Hunt just a ‘teddy bear’

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Hunt may have begun the season as a player little known outside Waterford but all that changed in October when, in the first minute of his first Premiership start, he was involved in a collision with Petr Cech that left the Chelsea goalkeeper with a fractured skull.

A vitriolic condemnation from Jose Mourinho and a clutch of death threats followed but eventually the headlines tailed off and the former Brentford midfielder began to get himself noticed for his performances on the pitch.