Micko makes for a little magic

You have to give it to Mick O'Dwyer almost 72 years of age and taking Wicklow into another Leinster campaign.
Where does he get his energy and enthusiasm?
After reading his autobiography recently Blessed and Obsessed there is no doubt he is in love with the game of Gaelic football.
While he has had much sparser material to work with in Leinster, you can never write him off and he had some great days with Kildare and Laois bringing Leinster titles to counties which hadn't even seen one passing through on the bus for a very long time.
Wicklow are in Division 4 football and as I know only too well from experience you aren't down there with my home county unless you are genuinely bad.
But that's the thing with Micko, simply because he's managing a team you can't write them off completely and the Garden County men must have got something out of their Tommy Murphy success last season.
It's ironic in a way that Micko is also up against a manager who has no championship experience as a manager in Kieran McGeeney.
Geezer has 'enjoyed' a baptism of fire with his Lilywhites coming up short in Division 1 and being relegated at the end of his first league campaign in charge.
All the pressure has to be on the former Armagh man to get a run in Leinster while O'Dwyer has nothing to lose.
You would still have to take Kildare to win given the gulf between the sides but Kildare lack firepower and O'Dwyer has come up with the goods throughout his life.
Certainly makes for a bit of interest in what otherwise would be regarded as a shoe in for Kildare.