Enda McEvoy: Divine madness, but why aren't we salivating already over a replay?

A drawn game, with another big day to come in a fortnight’s time, preceded by a week of fanfare and prognostication and excitement? A truly apocalyptic scenario alright.

MARGINS: Clare’s Aidan McCarthy scores a goal. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

THE 1957 All-Ireland final was quite the shootout for the era. It finished Kilkenny 4-10 Waterford 3-12. Midway through the tumult of the second half the Irish Independent’s GAA correspondent John D Hickey tried to light a cigarette and failed. It took him a while to work out the problem.

All very simple when the penny dropped. So caught up was he in the spectacle that Hickey had been lighting his ciggy from the wrong end.