Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Kerry have one big concern for Dublin test, Mayo and Louth dare to dream
Keith Evans made a critical block on Michael McKernan as he wound up for a two-point effort which could have taken the game to extra-time. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
E.M. Forster's assertion that life is easy to chronicle but bewildering to practice applied to the weekend of football championship quarter-final action in Croke Park. We were treated to a festival of football with Kerry, Dublin, Mayo and Louth still standing. Remarkably, one of the latter two will be in an All-Ireland final at the end of July.
Kerry and Tyrone produced a titanic battle on Saturday, which tested the All-Ireland champions to their core. There were so many talking points it would be impossible to cover everything. The second half was epic, and as good a half of football as I have seen in Croke Park in a long time as both teams went at it with gusto. Superb scores, magnificent fielding, stunning individual displays on both sides and physicality everywhere. Some of the breaking ball won by both sides through sheer bravery was noteworthy with Mark O’Shea, Paudie Clifford and Kieran McGeary wins all sticking out for me.
