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Dublin: The Chaos Years by Neil Cotter (Penguin Ireland)

How do you write about the Dublin senior football team, the greatest Gaelic football side of the modern era and arguably, the Greatest of All Time as they hunt down an unprecedented five-in-arow in 2019? With the players locked down tighter than a drum by their management, Neil Cotter (with his debut book) has come up with the simple but somewhat ingenious idea of chronicling how Dublin’s senior footballers got to Mount Olympus. So he charts the barren years, talking with former players and management who seem happy to spill their guts and put the boot into former colleagues in this entertaining account.