Colin Sheridan: Mercifully, there's nothing straight-setsy about Joyce's Galway 

The All Ireland football championship has found an unlikely running companion in Wimbledon this year, and, true to form, as the tournament progresses, the storylines develop
Colin Sheridan: Mercifully, there's nothing straight-setsy about Joyce's Galway 

Galway manager Padraic Joyce and Finnian Ó Laoi celebrate after the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final match between Armagh and Galway at Croke Park, Dublin. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

And then there were four. The All Ireland football championship has found an unlikely running companion in Wimbledon this year, and, true to form, as the tournament progresses, the storylines develop. 

On one side of the draw, a couple of obvious candidates in Dublin and Kerry, dutifully fulfilling their obligations to tradition and reality by impressively unimpressing in their double-digit disposal of plucky quarter-final opposition, barely dropping a set. 

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