Leaving from Shannon this evening and my mind began to consider other great sporting voyages.

I seem to recall Trevor Francis in the Cockpit of the plane that flew Nottingham Forest to the European cup final, The Galway Hurling team getting on O’ Donoghue’s coach to Dublin in 1981 and Steve Davis driving to the Crucible in his Dad’s Cortiina.

Well Bike is on board so time to go …