Galway players celebrate after beating Armagh in a penalty shootout. Photograph: James Crombie/InphoPat Spillane reckoned that those who attended Saturday’s quarter-finals at Croke Park were entitled to their money back after witnessing, as he described them, “two turkey shoots”, Clare and Cork “lambs to the slaughter”, reduced to the status of dead ducks by Derry and Dublin.
Óisín McConville described it as “disgusting”, Pat said it was “disgraceful” and “scandalous”, but apart from the eye-gouging gouger, who will, we trust, never be allowed set foot on a field of play again, him being a turd of the lowest order, much of it amounted to no more than two epically emotional sets of lads engaging in some “one-in-all-in” shoving and pushing after an epically emotional conclusion to an epically emotional 70 minutes.
The game wasn’t, of course, destroyed, it was a masterpiece, one of its finer brush strokes that Rian O’Neill equalising free at the death in normal time, one that left you asking yet again how it’s humanly possible for a person made of the same sinews, organs and such like as ourselves to do a thing like that under pressure so immense that it would reduce bog-standard mortals to jelly.
Joanne Cantwell told us that the Kerry v Mayo game had been delayed, Pat, with a heavy sigh, declared that “we won’t be home ‘til Monday night”.Pat recalled the first time he ever saw them being used to settle a game. “I went out to the garden and started praying.”
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