Though he played down their faint title hopes during last season’s hectic run-in, John Caulfield doesn’t take that well to the suggestion that Galway United may have “over-performed” in 2024.
“Where should we have been last year?” he says, after a slightly tense pause.
Eh, well. Em. You know… First year after promotion…
“Yeah but the first year I gave up amateur football to go over Cork City, we took it to the last game of the season to be in with a chance of winning the league (in 2014). And they’d finished third bottom the year before (sixth but we won’t quibble).
“Ollie and myself work our a**e off to get players to work hard. We go into compete in every match thinking we can win and give…