Meathness not enough to derail Dublin

Of all the commodities Meath need to bring to the game in Croke Park tomorrow, their Meathness is by far the most important.

The bookies tell us it may not be worth their while showing up, but I can’t think of a single county that relishes the underdog tag more.

There was a period when being underdog or being from Meath counted for very little in Croke Park. How many times in the past decade have Meath teams and supporters gotten ahead of themselves only to be cut down to size again very quickly? Indeed there were days in 2007, 2009 and especially in 2010 after their most recent Leinster title win, that Meath people started to believe they may have jinxed themselves when they started the olé, olé, olé and slow-clapping craic while putting Kerry to the sword in the semi final of 2001.