Cody’s diehards come up trumps

Those tremors you may have felt at around 8.30pm on Friday?

Easily explained. They were the aftershock of the minor quake that hit the sports desks of the various national newspapers when the Kilkenny team was announced.

A man who never gambles had gone to Vegas and put his house on black. Or, at any rate, had gone to Nowlan Park and put his house on two U21s in black and amber. Hold the back page! Hold the front page if that’s possible too! Brian Cody making two changes for the replay? This was news, news for all manner of reasons. And that was even before the James Skehill episode went public.