Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Football quarter-finalists can sit back and watch sharks devour each other

When the All-Ireland series commenced, not too many people - maybe no-one - would have had Cork, Louth and Tyrone straight into the All-Ireland quarter-finals, with the invaluable weekend off

If a confident Cork don’t get ahead of themselves, they will fear absolutely no one in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

SOMETIMES you just have to sit back, take a breath, reflect and appreciate the fantastic and crazy football championship that we are living through. Every weekend we are being rocked by shocks, treated to classics, and controversies. 

Ger Brennan returned to centre stage Sunday and it was far from being the biggest story of the weekend. Trying to actually nail down the biggest talking point is delightfully challenging. Armagh’s defeat in Inniskeen, because of their previous form and the last gasp nature of it probably just about edges it.