The rule change that could rattle Dublin

The highly anticipated showdown between Galway and Mayo reminded me of all those FA Cup finals I used to watch as a kid.

The rule change that could rattle Dublin

You’d get up early to watch the wall-to-wall BBC coverage, fearing that you’d miss one of the 500 or so pre-match interviews with everybody from former players to the club tea ladies.

It was all hype and bluster, building the game up into something of a fantasy that it was always going to struggle to live up to. Invariably, from my recollection at least, most of those games were dull 1-0 affairs.

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