Will Best League in the World turn out grand for Tipp?

A rare mea culpa. In pronouncing, before it started, the new Munster Hurling Championship the Best League in the World, it turns out, in hindsight, that I was grossly understating things. I was selling it short.

It deserved a bit more fanfare — arguably the full apocalyptic rugby treatment incorporating a suite of war metaphors, four or five hashtags, and a tear-stained rumbling montage narrative with brutal gladiators waging biblical storms on provincial battlefields for the glory of two precious points.

It’s just working. Right now, wherever Gianni Infantino is dreaming up a new competition with oilmen and insurance companies and wherever Amazon or Facebook execs are in town sniffing around streaming rights, there is surely somebody asking if there’s any chance of a three-from-five structure. Or a ‘rats-in-a-barrel format’, to use the correct terminology.