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Listen: ‘Football is an addiction’ – Danny McConnell on his return to management

written by Chris McNulty August 27, 2020
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FOOTBALL ‘addict’ Danny McConnell says he is relishing a return to Ulster Senior League management.

McConnell was last night confirmed as the new manager of Letterkenny Rovers.

Appointed as successor to Eamon McConigley, who will stand down at the end of the current season, McConnell – who guided Rovers to an Ulster Senior League title in 2005 – will get to work immediately.

Out of management since moving to England following a short stint at Swilly Rovers ten years ago, McConnell can’t wait to get back into the dugout.

“Ive been watching football day and night since I came back,” he told Donegal Daily/Donegal Sport Hub.

“I wanted back into it. The opportunity came and I went for it.

“This was always the drug here.  I can’t wait. Football is an addiction to me.”

Rovers still have the finals of the Donegal News USL League Cup and Knockalla Caravans Senior Cup to bring the curtain down on this campaign and McConnell is already eyeing up a challenge to Cockhill Celtic’s dominance of the USL stage.

He said: “Cockhill are the opposition to look up to and they’re the team to catch. Winning the League has to be the goal.”

Listen to the full interview below …

Donegal Sports Talk · Danny McConnell on return to management
Listen: ‘Football is an addiction’ – Danny McConnell on his return to management was last modified: August 27th, 2020 by Chris McNulty
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Chris McNulty

Author of 'Boxing In Donegal: A History (2021)' - the definitive history of the sport in County Donegal - and 'Relentless: A Race Through Time', the 2019 memoir of former Irish Athletics Team Manager Patsy McGonagle. From St Johnston and now based in Letterkenny, Chris was a nominee for NUJ Sports Journalist of the Year in 2010. Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport.

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