Allen: No complaints but spare us moral victory talk

In the bowels of the Kinane Stand, a magnanimous John Allen held up his hands and admitted his team had been beaten fair and square.

Kilkenny didn’t come away unscathed from this quarter-final but they did so with the loot and Allen wasn’t going to take anything away from them.

“At half-time, we were happy enough to be just a point down having played against the wind. I said to the players ‘do we now believe we can win this’?