"It was the first time I spoke to him in ten years"
September 11, 2018
Sean Cavanagh leads his Tyrone teammates out for their All-Ireland SFC semi-final clash against Dublin at Croke Park.
©INPHO/Ryan Byrne.
Joe Brolly and Sean Cavanagh sat beside each other at the 2018 All-Ireland SFC final and the Tyrone man says his “head was just fried”.
In his capacity as an analyst with The Sunday Game, former Derry star Brolly was highly critical of Cavanagh in August, 2013 when the Moy clubman rugby-tackled Monaghan’s Conor McManus towards the end of the all-Ulster All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park. Brolly lambasted Cavanagh’s cynicism, stating that “you can forget about Sean Cavanagh as far as he's a man”.
But both men were sitting together in the RTE box for the first half of last Sunday week’s Tyrone-Dublin decider and – in an engrossing interview with Paul Kimmage in The Sunday Independent – former Footballer of the Year Cavanagh revealed:
“The last time I actually spoke to him was in 2008. I was there in the box and he came over and put me in a head lock. He started talking about the match and I was playing it reasonably cool but sure it's water off a duck's back to that man.
“His head works at a hundred miles an hour. I sat beside him in the first half and it zapped me of energy, my head was just fried. Michael Murphy sat beside him in the second half and said to me after ‘I've a sore head. I need to go and sit out’.”
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