Retirement of seven-time All-Ireland-winning defender a blow to new Sky Blues boss Ger Brennan
Physicality, mixed with pace, was a key part of John Small’s repertoire in the blue of Dublin. Photo: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Call it the Jimmy Keaveney effect. The condition of automatic scepticism around the status of a retired Dublin footballer.
Every off-season for the past five or six goes like this. The autumn inquisition. Is Cluxton coming back – again? What’s the story with Fenton? Is he travelling? Whereabouts is Jack McCaffrey working now?