'I caught you into the ribs with the hurl. It was an awful belt.'

AS legends go, this pair definitely fit the bill.

To captain an All-Ireland-winning team is a massive honour. To do it twice, well, only a very select few know the feeling. This week, with their two counties meeting in tomorrow’s All-Ireland senior hurling final, Conor Hayes (Galway ’87 and ’88) and Liam Fennelly (Kilkenny ’83 and ’92) went head to head but, unlike in the All-Ireland final of 1987, this time there were no incidents.

Liam Fennelly: “We were on each other twenty five years ago, I missed an open goal, he got man of the match!”