Niall McCoy: Domination now the norm rather than the exception on the club scene

One team dominating a club football championship is nothing new – Crossmaglen’s run of 19 titles from 20 in Armagh between 1996 and 2015.

DOMINATING: One team dominating a club football championship is nothing new – Crossmaglen’s run of 19 titles from 20 in Armagh between 1996 and 2015 is legendary – but across the country, similar stories have become the norm rather than the exception. Picture: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

THE race for Sam Maguire is in one of its most competitive eras of recent times but on the club front, behemoths have never held more sway.

Armagh’s victory over Galway in July means that there have been four different All-Ireland winners in four years after victories for Tyrone, Kerry and Dublin before them.