Armagh alarm bells ring for Tyrone

I know it sounds parochial but there is something magical about being in the latter stages of the championship.

Armagh have missed that these last couple of seasons but if there’s one thing they have going into Saturday All-Ireland quarter-final it’s momentum and that counts for a lot. The support on Saturday was huge. Never would I have imagined Armagh would outnumber Kildare in the stands but they did and it was a massive factor as the game wore on.

There’s also an unpredictability about this Armagh team that is just as pleasing as the brand of football they are playing. I heard Cian O’Neill in the lead-up and he said that their homework on Armagh had been done. But I don’t think they had a clue about what way Armagh were going to play and that’s with the benefit of having watched the game for a second time on Saturday night.