Boys Eoin stuff for clinical Kelly

THERE WAS a sub-plot to yesterday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final between Waterford and Tipperary, and not a minor sub-plot either.

Whoever came out on top in the battle of the Eoin Kellys, went the pre-game wisdom, would win this war. They weren’t in direct opposition And yet in a sense this was indeed mano-a-mano; each Eoin Kelly, Waterford and Tipperary, is the team’s leading marksman, its talisman.

On this occasion, crucially, Waterford Eoin had the better support cast. 1-9 he scored, 1-2 of that from play, against Tipp Eoin’s 0-8, but the Mount Sion/Passage man saw much more of the action, much more good clean open ball — a tribute to those out the field and those alongside him up front, all duly accredited by Eoin.