For many of the players honoured in Croke Park yesterday as ‘Stars of the 80s,’ an All-Ireland senior football medal simply eluded them, while for a few of them it was never more than a dream.

A SIMPLY astonishing scoreline and one made all the more so given the fact that few in the crowd of 11,675 would have given tuppence for Monaghan’s chances at ten past two yesterday afternoon.