Clarke: Cross hungry to finish the job

“Intense” is how Jamie Clarke forecasts today’s All-Ireland club football final replay.

Even at that, he’s putting it mildly. The war of words between members of the Crossmaglen and Garrycastle teams at the end of last Saturday week’s first game in Croke Park suggests there is no love lost.

Indeed, after a game in which referee Rory Hickey could have dismissed two more than the couple he did, there’s every reason to believe Kingspan Breffni Park will be a cauldron this evening. Clarke himself was involved in that verbal exchange where it appeared something was said to him as he attempted to shake hands with a Garrycastle opponent.