Clinical Kilkenny brush aside sweeper fears

The advice given by the wise newspaper editor in the case of Liberty Valance all those years ago still holds: when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

In the case of yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final, however, we need to tread warily when it comes to possible errors in the mythology.

Kilkenny as avatars of the game played as it unfolds in front of them? Waterford betrayed by the now-famous system, sent back to the southeast to brood on creating goals?