The Armagh GAA skipper was more into soccer as a teenager, playing alongside some huge names and having trials at a big Premier League club .
The last time Armagh won an Ulster Championship, current skipper Aidan Forker says he was more of a soccer man.It’s funny how times change with the Maghery man now the main driving force in Armagh’s bid to bridge that chasm to their last Anglo-Celt Cup triumph, which is now in its 16th season.Forker’s memories of that 2008 Ulster decider are hazy.It was the year after current Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney, now in his 10th season in charge, retired from playing at 37.
“I got to meet all the players at that time, the Gerrards and Carraghers. Sami Hyypia was playing and Djibril Cisse was there. “There was maybe 44 players trialling and I was put in centre back, which I was raging about,” says Forker. “Just technically they were a lot better because they were tidier and used to the pace and the quick thinking and decision making.“I was probably a little bit overawed and it felt like maybe boys were a wee bit ahead of me.
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