Does the provincial football champion get a raw deal by not knowing their opposition?

All-Ireland Championship weighed in favour of losing teams? No way, says John Fogarty.

SPEAKING to a player on a current provincial winning team this week, it was striking just how disenchanted he was by not having a blind idea who his team were going to be facing until tomorrow evening.

“Don’t we deserve that much for winning the bloody province?” he blasted. “Why can’t the whole thing be at least mapped out?”