<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541923" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Boyhood Sporting Hero</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most boys have their sporting heroes and mine played Gaelic Football<br>The mighty Mick O Connell the greatest I recall<br>But Mick O played for Kerry and Cork my favourite team<br>And to play football good as him was many school boy's dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The finest Gaelic Footballer that I have ever seen<br>Not rough or hard in any way but classical and clean<br>And though that was many years ago and far so far away<br>Of great player from Valentia the memory with me stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Mick O's playing days were over he faded from the scene<br>But memories of his playing feats will remain evergreen<br>His high fielding and kicking and his passing of the ball<br>The complete Gaelic Footballer the greatest of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never hogged the limelight he seemed so quiet and shy<br>But he was sporting hero to many school going boy<br>And even many who did not support Kerry will still tell you today<br>That Valentia's Mick O Connell was the best they had seen play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My hero played for Kerry and Cork my favourite team<br>And to be good a player as him an early teenage dream<br>But as a Gaelic Footballer I never made the grade<br>And I won't be remembered for any game I played.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541923" data-title="A Boyhood Sporting Hero de Francis Duggan" data-description="Most boys have their sporting heroes and mine played Gaelic Football The mighty Mick O Connell the greatest I recall But Mick O played for Kerry and Cork my favourite team And to play football good as him was many school boy's dream The finest Ga..."></div> </div> </div>

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