Whose Era? Taylor tackles the quarter-finals

Taylor Swift has a song for all the SFC quarter-finalists?

WHOSE ERA? As far as stadium events go, Taylor Swift provides the opposition to this weekend’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals. Pic: Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management 

“The best and worst day of June/Was the one that I met you” – Taylor Swift, “You All Over Me”.

As far as stadium events go, she provides the opposition to this weekend’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals. Dublin is Bethlehem and there is not a reasonably-priced room at an inn to be got. Taylor Swift’s in town and if people aren’t making money, they’re spending it.

Those content to be in Croke Park and Aviva Stadium on Saturday and Sunday wouldn't appear to have a whole lot in common, but as Swift’s Dublin cousin Jonathan once said, “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster”.

So, in a gratuitous attempt at sport and music ecumenicism, we have flicked our way through Miss Swift’s vast discography to apply her words of wisdom to the eight All-Ireland senior football quarter-finalists.

Which team will cursing this championship as a  'Cruel Summer' over these next couple of days? Will there be an 'Anti-Hero', might the low block defence go out of 'Style' or will managers afterwards counter-claim about the other, 'Look What You Made Me Do'?

What is certain is Taylor’s got a song for everyone:

ARMAGH 

“That was the first time we were there/Holy orange bottles, each night, I pray to you/Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus too” 

- “Soon You’ll Get Better” from “Lover” 

DERRY

“But, honestly, baby, who's countin'?/Who's countin'? (One, two, three)” 

– "So It Goes…” from “Reputation”.

DONEGAL

“Would surprise the whole school/When I ended up back at our class reunion/Walkin' in with you” 

– “Suburban Legends” from extended “1989”.

DUBLIN

“Drownin' in the Blue Nile/He sent me ‘Downtown Lights’” 

– “Guilty as Sin?” from “The Tortured Poets Department”.

GALWAY

“And how the blood rushed into my cheeks/So scarlet, it was maroon/The mark they saw on my collarbone” 

– “Maroon” from “Midnights”.

KERRY

“Long, long live the walls we crashed through/how the kingdom lights shined just for me and you/And I was screaming, ‘Long live all the magic we made’”

– “Long Live” from “Speak Now”.

LOUTH

“My ex-man brought his new girlfriend/She's like, ‘Oh, my God’, but I'm just gonna shake” 

– “Shake It Off” from “1989”.

ROSCOMMON

“Beer stickin' to the floor, cheers chanted 'cause they said/ ‘There was no chance trying to be the greatest in the league’/Where's the trophy? He just comes runnin' over to me” 

– “The Alchemy” from “The Tortured Poets Department”.