Taking the right option

WITH the dust settling on Cork's 30th All-Ireland hurling success, Michael Moynihan examines some of the ways in which the Leesiders put a Clive Woodward maxim into effect:

It's not about doing two things 50% better, it's about doing 100 things 1% better.

LAST Tuesday night John Allen addressed an adoring crowd outside the Na Piarsaigh clubhouse, home patch of Cork's inspirational captain, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín. He invited those in the crowd to identify the luckiest man present, and after the storm of incorrect guesses abated, answered his own question.