What it takes and what it means.
John Murphy knows.
Dermot Keely knows.
Stephen O’Donnell knows.
If you’re a captain, you have a responsibility. If you’re a winner, you have expectation.
Footballers should thrive off that. Leaders should manage that.
This Dundalk team is relentless. It seems to know no bounds. It seems to know no inhibitions.
Three-in-a-row is on the horizon and, around the town, that pressure and anticipation is building.
Stephen O’Donnell isn’t buckling though and neither of the famous skippers that made history before him see why anyone should be panicking. This is what you play football for. This is what you live for.
It isn’t that long since Dundalk were on the brink of extinction. Now, they’re on the brink of immortality.
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And all it’s doing is driving the town, the club, and the players on further. All it’s doing is inspiring them to rise higher and higher above themselves and it starts with the captain’s example.
“If they don’t see the captain working hard or doing his best or leading by example, there’s not much chance the rest of the players are going to follow,” Stephen O’Donnell says.
And, as Dermot Keely put it, “you walk the walk and people will walk after you.”
These men know what it is to walk the walk. These men know what it is to win.
Via Fyffes Ireland.
