John Greene

quotes that are of any value nowadays are post-match and even we just need to go back to the the bells of Croke Park on Saturday for the a fairly innocuous question that was asked of Jimmy Guinness after the Donegal Dublin game on Saturday afternoon and how much analysis and discussion was generated by his refusal to answer what seemed a fairly fair question um

Obviously, you want to be speaking to these people as close to the full time whistle as possible, because that's when their emotions are still running high.

And they might be their guard might be not quite as strong and structured as it would be an hour later when they've had a chance to parse their thoughts.

But in terms of pre-match stuff.

Any sort of a pre-match interview nowadays, there's just an element of the box ticking to it.

You're rarely, unless it's Jose Mourinho or somebody old school, he's trying to get some sort of a message out there.

It's so rare now that you hear something that raises an eyebrow in the build-up to a game.

That's it, you're still getting a feel for the place.

You're testing the vibe, you're speaking to other people.

You might be speaking to PR people who are working with the various unions, speaking to, you might just have a little chat with a physio or something and you never know what sort of little tidbit of information you would pick up.

Well, there's no hard and fast pathway, obviously.

Mine is, for me, it's a boring story, but...

Live in an upweaver.

I was in, I left, I sleep, slept walked my way into business studies in college and then almost really lacking ambition just walked out of college and just took the first job in banking.

That was offered to me and I ended up spending four or five years in banking.

You could describe it as a waste of time, but obviously every element of your life has value when you look back on it and it allowed you to maybe save for a house and kind of put the bedrock in place for what might have come down the tracks years after that.

But I wasn't happy and

Well, certainly wasn't any good at it.

My peers were all performing far better than I was and they were clearly made for it.

I was not.