You have to love the Gambler

You just have to love Oisin McConville. While others are very measured about what they say the Armagh veteran just usually says it as it is, or at least as he sees it.
His book The Gambler was one of the most candid accounts I have read by any player.
Now he’s out hitting at out at players who in his opinion have retired too early to go into management because of the financial rewards.
Of course as we all know officially there are no rewards other than mileage and some expenses around kit, and I suppose in the days that’s in it, the mobile phone bill.
Now like McConville we all know that those days have been long gone with the wind but there’s no doubt that McConville’s comments will fuel a flurry of speculation about just which senior footballers ended their inter-county careers early to go into management.
There’s no doubt that Oisin will never get a job with the UN because a diplomat he ain’t but I reckon he’ll still make great copy long after he hangs up the boots after what has been a wonderful career.