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06 Sept 2025

THE MAN BEHIND THE WIRE: The Offaly Senior Football Championship team of the year 2021

THE MAN BEHIND THE WIRE: Senior Football Championship team of the year

Declan Hogan chasing Niall McNamee

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2: Right corner back – Lee Pearson (Edenderry)

Lee Pearson makes the team by virtue of honesty with which he marked opposing forwards. The Offaly U-20 star loves to get forward at pace but he went out to defend first and foremost, playing consistently well in an ultimately disappointing year for Edenderry – his tussle with his U-20 team mate Cathal Flynn in the quarter-final defeat by Ferbane was one of the highlights of the season and while Flynn was man of the match that day, Pearson got his hands on a lot of ball.

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