Anthony Daly: Cork put exclamation mark on statement win with green flags

Shane Kingston’s late goal, and the two green flags which followed from Alan Connolly, put the exclamation marks on a statement Cork performance

HELD UP: Cork’s Mark Coleman is tackled by Waterford’s Austin Gleeson during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 clash. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach

Just after Waterford had pared the deficit down to four points with four minutes remaining yesterday at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, I scribbled on my notepad ‘4 with 4??’ With Cork feeling Waterford’s hot breath on their necks, I was thinking that the match could go either way, but that thought was extinguished in a blink by a magnesium flash of Shane Kingston class.

Another Waterford point would have put them within one score of a game that looked out of their reach for most of the previous 40 minutes, but Kingston’s goal, and the two green flags which followed from Alan Connolly, put the exclamation marks on a statement Cork performance.