Playing a key role to Kingdom success

TOMMY GRIFFIN spends enough summer Sundays at the coalface of championship action that in his downtime he opts to steer away from Gaelic football.

Last weekend for his television viewing he had the option of keeping tabs on the progress of potential opponents like Meath’s Cian Ward and Sligo’s David Kelly, but the Dingle man chose instead to watch the images streaming live from Bloemfontein. The control exerted by Mesut Ozil and Thomas Muller in enabling Germany to rip apart England’s challenge left an indelible impression on him.

“I don’t even know what’s going on in the rest of the country. Fellas were going on about last Sunday’s games but they had no great bearing on me. I saw the Dublin-Meath result but I’d no interest in it to be honest. I’m just be watching the World Cup these days and I really like the Germans. They are a good team full of solid guys. They do their job, they are methodical and clinical. I like that. It was no harm to see the result last Sunday either.”