Who is Championship Man?

Championship Man* lives:

• A couple of miles outside the town
• With his wife and four children
• A bit in off the road
• In the shadow of a medium-sized hill
• In the house he built himself in the ’70s
• Beside the home place
• On the land he farms part-time
• Two miles from the school where he serves as caretaker, part-time too
• A simple existence where his children want for nothing, but get nothing over and above either
• With a permanent dream of seeing his own crowd win the All-Ireland

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Championship Man is:

• A true Gael
• The owner of a 1992 Toyota Carina he keeps in immaculate condition
• Thinking about Sunday
• Thinking about spreading their backs out wide
• An ordinary, decent pilgrim
• Excitable
• A small bit star-struck, but not too shy all the same to put talk on a county player if he happened to meet him leaning on the wire at a club match
• A collector of match programmes, many of them autographed by the referees
• Getting the car washed and the oil checked Saturday
• Commentating to himself right now as he drives home the short-cut from the school where he works as the part-time caretaker
• Prone to believing too much of what he sees in tournament matches
• Going early Sunday to get in ahead of the crowd
• Delighted that he finally got to fill in the Wallchart last Sunday, though he felt sorry for New York

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Championship Man is not:

• Going to give up on the dream
• Likely to sleep from now until Sunday, and maybe not for a few days after that either
• One for the after-match banquets in Dublin
• Sure where he’ll park the car on Sunday, but thinks he won’t go in too close

Championship Man was:

• A virgin when he got married, and for a good while afterwards too
• Not much of a player himself, but stood in goal when the club were stuck
• Cranky as a cut cat the evening they lose in the championship
• Easily convinced they will come back aain
• The first man out on the field to hug the manager

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Championship Man will be:

• At all the league games again next year, regardless of how this year goes
• At the Kilmacud Sevens
• Watching for omens at the Kilmacud Sevens
• Inconsolable until Christmas whether they lose a 4-19 to 4-18 thriller, or a drab 0-1 to 0-0 affair
• Home early enough Sunday night because cows don’t milk themselves
• Praying the new SkyPlus yoke gets the whole match

Championship Man believes:

• Kilkenny are not as good as people say
• The economy was bunched before the last election and Bertie knew it
• In buying a raffle ticket to support the county board
• He’ll die happy if they could just win it once

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