Kieran Shannon: The Mac and Jack show: the first all-returning All-Ireland
RETURNING MANAGERS: Jim McGuinness and Jack O'Connor will face on in the first All-Ireland SFC with returning managers.
E’VE never had this before, in either code. Marry the return of the Mac that is McGuinness’s with Jack being back yet again for the last game of the year and you’ve the first-ever All-Ireland final where both managers are returning managers.
It is a remarkable achievement by both men. To appreciate and even possess the wisdom of Heraclitus when before them so many other greats have approached a familiar river bank, taken the plunge, but learned the hard way that no man ever really steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he’s not the same man. The river, like the game, has changed, and to navigate those turbulent waters and reach the other side you’ve to change and have changed with them, otherwise you’ll be left floundering, swept away, never quite the same, a yesterday’s man.
Take us with you this summer.
