A fortnight where we all fell back in love with football

Last year when Kerry played a Super 8s match in Croke Park, it didn’t exactly fare well in the TV channel-hopping stakes. At the same time they and Galway were offering up the drabbest and most disappointing game of the football year, France and Croatia were squaring off in the World Cup final.

In Thurles, a thrilling game climaxed in Tom Morrissey and Limerick surging past Kilkenny to announce hurling’s year of years could also be Limerick’s. If events from Moscow and Tipperary were being brought to you in technicolour and HD, matters in Dublin seemed to be stuck in black and white.