Anthony Daly: Last dance factor heaps pressure on Clare's massive opener

I’m involved with the Clarecastle first team again this year in the Clare Intermediate championship. We were supposed to train in our own field on Monday evening but we had to look for an alternative venue when the Clare-Tipperary minor football match had to be switched from Quilty to our place at short notice because of the weather.

Ger ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin, the manager, put up a text to say that we were in Clareabbey, our old pitch, just across the road, which is now owned by the county board. That pitch is normally like a carpet because the surface is so good there. I couldn’t get over the field – it was in poor shape.

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