‘What time is it, please?” asks Jack McCaffrey. He’s just given us a generous chunk of his time and, with that, politely excuses himself. No one could function at the top end of a so-called amateur sport without being a master of time management. A lot of people still think GAA players are some sort of slaves to their amateur status, struggling with the time commitment, wondering if they should be playing something else. But they’re wrong. Because for all the research and advancement in that broad spectrum known as sports science, one thing remains certain: we don’t choose our sport, our sport chooses us. McCaffrey may be a perfect illustration of this. It’s Wednesday morning in Croke...
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