You won’t see a better game

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.

I said it could be the match of the year – it was, and by some distance. And I’ll make this prediction now – it won’t be surpassed for the remainder of the championship.

The quality can best be summed up in the total of the wides recorded by the teams in the first half – two for Galway, three for Tipp, with 20 scores in that spell. That tells you all you need to know. There have been classics between these two counties before – I doubt there’s even been better than yesterday, definitely none I can remember.