Friday 24 May 2013
The league is a wicked child, prone to bad manners, idle promise and bare-faced lies. For Jim Gavin, the bonus of Dublin's first win in 20 years will be the folly it exposed then of a spring that left so many tossing petals at his feet.
For a man who would, happily, have signed in for all formal engagements as Irish coach under an assumed name, it isn't unreasonable to imagine Declan Kidney feeling some tingle of relief today.
It was his man who thieved our pockets in the end, his man whose late strike deflected so wickedly to give Lansdowne the feel of a puckered balloon.
As proof of authenticity, maybe the absence of a post-game handshake between Eamon O'Shea and Brian Cody was as close as we could get to a certificate.
The man on the tannoy sounded like he'd seen Clint Eastwood come over the horizon on horseback. A buoyant France had just drawn level and the five minutes that remained stretched out before us like a small eternity.
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