David Clifford magical mystery tour: The Footballer of the Year, the GAA’s brightest superstar, paddling in backwaters to the delight of whoever turns up. Springsteen playing dancehalls, a tenner on the door. via IrishTimesSport
“There’s a bit of Beatlemania to it,” says Eamonn Fitzmaurice, the former Kerry manager who is in Fossa’s backroom team this year.
“People came from all over the midlands to see it. I talked to people from Cavan, there were people there from Wicklow, Westmeath. Plenty of Laois people just came along for the day as well.” As it happened, Listry handed Fossa their one defeat of the whole championship, overcoming them by a point in the final group game. Both sides were already through to the knock-out stages by then but when clubs separated by two miles of road meet in championship, it’s no dead rubber. David Clifford missed a free at the death to draw the game and the Listry crowd harooed long and loud. And then every kid in the place sprinted out to him, missed free or no missed free.
“And in fairness, he did what we told him. He just played him straight up, no mouthing, no pulling and dragging, just did his best on him and did okay. But he picked up a yellow card so at half-time we said we’ll make a switch here. We moved our full-back off him and put his brother in there. Feohanagh-Castlemahon are based in west Limerick, deep in hurling country. It’s the club of Tommy Quaid and Joe Quaid and home to one of the modern-day Limerick superstars in Seamie Flanagan. They play in Coolyroe, smuggled away off a byroad a few miles south of Newcastlewest. The idea that they would ever sell out a football match would have been absurd at every point in the club’s history, right up until it was confirmed that David Clifford was coming up the road.
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