{"id":32519,"date":"2025-08-30T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32519\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:18:08","slug":"ranking-the-greats-part-six-the-top-30-football-and-hurling-managers-of-the-last-50-years-numbers-5-1-the-final-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32519\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the greats, part six: The top 30 football and hurling managers of the last 50 years (numbers 5-1) \u2013 the final bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Martin Breheny concludes his countdown of the best county bosses since the modern age began in the 1970s\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mick O'Dwyer and Brian Cody stand apart in their respective codes.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/732f5461-4125-4a31-be64-acce78099528.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mick O&#8217;Dwyer and Brian Cody stand apart in their respective codes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mick O\u2019Dwyer and Brian Cody are automatic choices at No 1, their incredible achievements and records unlikely to ever be surpassed. John Kiely has done enough to take hurling\u2019s No 2 slot, but what of football?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There will, no doubt, be many who argue that Jim Gavin\u2019s extraordinary reign with Dublin takes him closest as O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s nearest challenger, but I have opted for another Dub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny concludes his countdown of the best county bosses since the modern age began in the 1970s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,25472,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-32519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-martin-breheny","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}