The one game Galway simply dare not lose?

And so, yet again, we return to Ger Loughnane and the 1997 Munster final, borne back ceaselessly into the past like those boats of Fitzgerald’s.

F Scott, not Davy.

Every team Loughnane averred reaches a point in their evolution where they take the field for a match they simply have to win. Tipperary in Páirc Uí Chaoimh 20 years ago was Clare’s. Tipperary in Croke Park tomorrow may not be Galway’s but it’s as near as makes no difference. Let us count the ways why.