Sorry I couldn’t get to the Hyde on Sunday… I simply had to continue working on our top secret plans to form a new political party this year!
No problem!
I take it you didn’t position yourself behind the Roscommon dugout THIS time?
Huh?
For the Galway game, you stood right behind Davy Burke and kept shouting at him! AND you had a word or two with Padraic Joyce…
That was constructive advice!
Well, I take it there was no repeat of this manager-baiting last Sunday!
Actually, I was high up in the Stand on the Athlone Road side…
GOOD! Out of mischief!
Well…
(They pause to closely analyse a photo allegedly showing the Prince and Princess of Wales leaving a Farm Shop…)
WELL WHAT?
I was minding my own business… in the Stand…
Yeah…
Next thing there’s a celebrity standing right across from me…
Paddy Joe’s always there…
NOT Paddy Joe! It was none other than Kerry manager Jack O’Connor. There he was, watching his team take on the Rossies, from high up in the Stand! With a minder…
(Editor: Surely you mean… ‘selector’?)
Really? Jack O’Connor watched the game from high up in the Stand?
YES!
You didn’t?
He was right beside me!
What did you say?
What didn’t I say?!
I’d never approach him; he’s a serious looking man!
Ah that’s his ‘game face’… in reality, he’s very friendly and good craic! I’d say he’ll do Dancing with the Stars… eventually!
What makes you think that?
I suggested it to him on Sunday… and the way he looked at me – really serious – makes me think he was giving it some thought!
(They pause to check if Louis Walsh is still on the rampage in the Big Brother House)
So that was it… one brief, chronically ill-judged comment, annoying a man as he was in the middle of his job?
It went on longer than that!
Huh?
Granted, they had some tape cordoning off a small area, so that Jack could have some peace and comfort…
YEAH!
But, given my GAA knowledge, I HAD to approach him…
So… you gave the multiple All-Ireland-winning Kerry manager the benefit of your GAA knowledge, during an actual Kerry game, did you?
Yes!
And you’re trying to tell me he was friendly?
Well, he seemed to know the stewards well, he kept gesturing to them! I genuinely think he likes me, he kept staring at me as he went off at half-time!
And in the second half?
Er… he watched that from the dugout below.
Huh!
By the way, I reckon he’ll be turfed out soon…
Jack O’Connor? Cheek of you!
No! Louis Walsh!
