Galway the stone in his shoe Brian Cody can’t get rid of

Before we get into the madness of the last five minutes, and perhaps its overriding cause was really nothing deeper than Kilkenny’s lack of height in midfield, let us pay due tribute to Galway.

Erratic, unknowable, frustrating Galway. The stone in his shoe that Brian Cody simply cannot get rid of.

They’ve been there since his second season in charge, hassling him and pestering him and more than once prompting doctrinal sea-change, and they just won’t go away. No county has given Cody the grief Galway have.