Dubs dish out capital punishment
Too quick and deadly for Derry, it was also too blindingly fast for the vast majority of the 38,841 Croke Park crowd. Even the umpire had to be instructed by referee Cormac Reilly to raise the green flag as, with remarkable precision, Brogan struck the ball into very corner of the goal, hitting the stanchion and coming back out into play.
Brogan knew his strike was good, of course, and with it Derry’s day came to an end. With just under half an hour of football left to play, Dublin had disappeared into the distance to the tune of nine points. Another Division 1 crown annexed.
