Reflection on 2010 - Football and Hurling

[Plain of the Herbs]

Enda McEvoy writing in today's Sunday Tribune on last Sunday’s Tipperary v Galway match.

As a contest it (Tipperary v Galway) lacked something in the way of substance. It wasn’t quite the match of the summer; the Galway-Offaly replay had more cutting about it and exerted a tighter grip. This was a middle-income earner’s version of Galway-Kilkenny in 2005. Too open, too slack, too sloppy – the ideal antidote, in short, to the bump and bash and relentless grind of Waterford versus Cork in Thurles, and fabulous entertainment along with it. We may yearn for strawberries and cream, but what’s wrong with a good bowl of jelly and custard every now and then?