Paul Hegarty waited until the midnight hour. That was when his ire came tumbling down.
He was seven days into his caretaker stint at Derry City, tasked with steering them away from the relegation zone, when a defeat to Bray signalled trouble. Two days later they had a training match, X1 versus X1. “And it was awful, shocking quality.”
At that point Hegarty turned to his young assistant.