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Comment: Galway proved they were worthy winners, until they didn't

Brian Cody may be in the stands now but Kilkenny haven’t gone away, you know.
Comment: Galway proved they were worthy winners, until they didn't

CAT THAT CAUGHT THE CREAM: Former Kilkenny manager Brian Cody celebrates. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

It wasn’t the key score, maybe not even the best score of the day, but it was the sort of score that summed up why Galway, for all their imperfections and their insistence on making life hard for themselves, went out and won this absorbing Leinster hurling final.

Until, well, they didn’t.

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