Ryan may pay price for sacrificial tactic

Watching Kilkenny disembowel Tipperary in the second-half yesterday, a quote from acclaimed TV series The Wire sprang to mind.

Ryan may pay price for sacrificial tactic
Mon, 20 Aug, 2012 - 01:00
John Fogarty

Drugs gang henchman Sergey’s mobile is tapped by the Baltimore police and they catch his conversation with a concerned dealer about a dead body.

“Did he have a head? Did he have hands? Yes? Then it wasn’t us.”

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