The most horrid journalism cliché is the one about finding interesting stories. “Dog bites man?” Boring. “Man bites dog?” Oooh, edgy.
“Kerry County relinquishes All-Ireland Football title?” Well, now you’re just talking crazy. Can’t happen, right?
Wrong. Tyrone upset Kerry, 1-15 to 0-14, in the All-Ireland Final on Sunday. Down 0-8 to 0-7 at half, Tyrone got a big boost from Tommy McGuigan, who scored a goal — that’s worth 3 points, in case you forgot — just 22 seconds into the second half, and Tyrone held off a late charge by Kerry to walk away with the Sam McGuire Cup.
In other news, someone got pissed and opened his big mouth. In Ireland, though, that probably qualifies as “Dog bites man,” so, y’know, nothing to see there.
And that’s about all I can tell you about that. Really, keeping up with all these football codes is damn near impossible.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Fredorrarci // Sep 23, 2008 at 8:04 pm
In fairness to Tyrone, it wan’t that big a shock. It was their third All-Ireland of the decade, after all. Mind you, given the weeping and wailing when they got knocked out of Ulster, it’s probably fair to say that not too many saw this coming back then.
2 JamesB // Sep 26, 2008 at 9:56 am
Completely unexpected back at the start of the summer but once Dublin were torn apart in 1/4 final, it seemed probable.
3 Patrick Tavey // Nov 7, 2008 at 8:41 am
I think this was one that everyone could see coming..QAlthough Tyrone did not have the start they wanted in the Ulster championship there was always going to be a lot more fire left in Tyrone as they are a top side in Ulster..