NEWLY installed Wexford manager, Paul Galvin, said he found himself being drawn back into football more and more over the past two years while he watched the game regularly as a spectator.
The new boss of the unfashionable but ambitious Division 4 side said he had almost become a manager in a sub-conscious way by reading games and watching moves and he is comfortable with his new role because of the calibre of people he has encountered on the Wexford County Board.
39-year-old Galvin, who holds four All-Ireland medals, said the new motorway from his home in Dublin to the south east, which will cut the travel time he will experience, was an important factor but the club culture that prevails in Wexford was the most important consideration of all.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Galvin said despite playing under some respected managers, he learned the most in his playing days from his team-mates.
“Nowadays people might think the answer to improvement or progress is to be found in a book, a video or on another continent when, in fact, it could actually be right next to you in the dressing room,” he said.
Galvin said before he started any conversation with Wexford officials, for some reason earlier in the summer, he had been drawn to the Pikmean statue on Denny Street, Tralee and he recalled his former Lixnaw primary school principal, John McAuliffe, teaching him about the Pikemen of Wexford in the classroom 30 years ago. He said he can sense now an empathy between Kerry people and Wexford folk.
“I don’t know why the Pikeman statue came into my senses this summer but I have always been one to take a lead from my intuitions. For everything a reason and only time will tell the story,” he said.
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