Football history is laden with sons and brothers following the family lead
Brothers Darragh and Ruairí Canavan lift the Seamus McFerran Cup after Errigal Ciarán’s victory over Kilcoo in the Ulster club SFC final last month. Photo: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
How time flies when you’re scoring for fun. It is now six years since Darragh Canavan announced himself on the senior inter-county stage.
The teenage prodigy came lumbered with the great expectations that inevitably follow – as a roadmap or even a curse – when your father is known to all as either ‘Peter the Great’ or simply ‘God’.