Last summer, after 13 years at Manchester City, Donough Holohan took on a new challenge. For the previous three years, he had been head of physical performance at the club that has dominated English football in the current generation. The money that flows into English football has given it a competitive advantage over every other club in England and the money available to Manchester City was at the extreme end of that. Holohan, originally from Malahide, was choosing a different road, but it says something about how football has developed an elite that his choice – one of the great…

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