‘If anyone ever asks was Fergal O’Brien any good at this lark? I’d ask them to look back on that week’
Fergal O’Brien’s days on the baize are coming to a close and he is now realising just how much it meant to him
Fergal O'Brien: 'Any time I ever played my best, I wasn’t thinking about winning, I wasn’t thinking about anything.’ Photo: Mark Condren
Where are the tears coming from? Fergal O’Brien is sitting in Celbridge Snooker Club on a cold Monday morning and the dam in his heart is being crashed upon by the floods of memory.
If retirement does indeed represent the first death of the sportsperson, maybe this is the sudden realisation that he is attending his own funeral service.
