Cynicism takes firm hold as players cross the line to get over the line

Much of the discourse around last Sunday’s final has left me cold, writes Dara Ó Cinnéide.

As enthralled as I was by the All-Ireland final — the contest, the physicality from start to finish — I simply can’t abide much of the commentary over the past six days from those directly involved in the game, those on its peripherary and those tasked with analysing it.

Nobody knows why the Dublin forwards chose to drag their men to the ground on David Clarke’s last kickout, and yet everybody knows.