John Fenton: ‘If you play ground ball in hard and fast, I’m certain it can beat the extra man’

It's a score that wouldn’t dare be attempted now. Not because it was a strike of such majesty but because it wouldn’t be anything close to the percentage play.
John Fenton: ‘If you play ground ball in hard and fast, I’m certain it can beat the extra man’

John Fenton of Cork fires a free against Galway in the 1986 All-Ireland in 1986. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

“John, there will be a bit of glass for that one”

It's a score that wouldn’t dare be attempted now. Not because it was a strike of such majesty but because it wouldn’t be anything close to the percentage play.

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