Caolan Finnegan’s disarming smile showed you the man and the footballer all at once

On his 20th birthday, Caolan woke up to a compilation of messages from Conor McManus, Damien Comer, Brian Fenton, Con O’Callaghan, Conor Glass and the rest. During the fundraising campaign, David Clifford sent a good luck message. If the world was just, he’d have spent the next decade on the pitches of Ireland with those men, striving, tormenting, goal-hunting, overtaking.