Horgan played every minute of All-Ireland final with hamstring injury

“All week I knew, I never ran or anything. I knew after five minutes there was no sprinting."

ONE MORE YEAR: Patrick Horgan said he intends to play for Cork in 2025. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Patrick Horgan prefaces his remarks about referee Johnny Murphy with the admission Cork didn’t play to the standards they had set themselves.

“I just don’t think we were at our best for any part of the game,” concedes Horgan, who carried a hamstring injury into Sunday’s All-Ireland final. “We started well but after that we were just kind of hanging on, and we were still that close, so who knows, like.