Donegal pilloried but Dubs equally culpable for dour display

TWO teams enter battle at Croke Park.

Both play with uber-defences. Both employ two sweepers. In the end, one team is pilloried for playing negatively while the other is hailed as the saviours of football.

That’s mad Ted. Yes, but it still happened. Picture a boxing contest in which the two fighters hide behind their gloves and rarely throw a punch. Would it be right to ridicule one of the boxers for the dour spectacle that ensues? Are both pugilists not guilty of exercising extreme caution? When emotion and bias are removed from the analysis of Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final, it becomes clear Dublin and Donegal were guilty of the same so-called ‘crimes’.