IF people had believed what I wrote on Saturday we might have had a real crowd in Croke Park yesterday for the meeting of Tipperary and Galway, the kind of crowd a game like this deserved.

ANOTHER weekend of hurling, but with all due respect to Cork and Antrim, everyone is talking about Tipperary and Galway.

AND we thought last Sunday was dramatic!

Munster SHC Final Replay

A FANTASTIC Munster hurling final on Sunday, and yet all the talk yesterday and today, and probably all this week, is about yet another terrible call by a referee.

The replay? I’m really looking forward to that, though I doubt we’ll see the same two starting line-ups the next day.

LAST weekend, and not for the first time this year, you’d have to say the football outshone the hurling, big-time – a bad Leinster final in Croke Park.

I started my hurling weekend in Semple Stadium on Saturday, and it was torture.

ONE thing Galway can’t complain about going into this Leinster final is a lack of games – in fact they have more big matches played than Kilkenny, three to one.

ANOTHER brilliant game, just as I had forecast, and I can’t understand how anyone could have expected otherwise.