'Obviously I was confident that we would win and I knew that this week would be a really, really helter skelter week.'
Cork boss Pat Ryan has revealed how he was so confident his side would beat Limerick that he took time off work to prepare for the All-Ireland final.
Ryan explained: “I’m on two weeks’ parental leave at the moment so it’s not too bad. So no, look, to be honest with you, I’m lucky in my job, I have good bosses and stuff like that so I took two weeks’ parental leave. “We found it way more relaxing than going up on the train in the morning. So we’ll travel up on the Saturday and there is the usual function that normally happens for Cork teams after All-Irelands so we’ll be staying the Sunday night as well.”
Meanwhile, Ryan admitted that he thought that Alan Connolly’s handpass to Brian Hayes, leading to what would have been a second Cork goal in Sunday’s game, was illegal at the time, though television pictures subsequently proved that referee Thomas Walsh had made the wrong call.Ryan added: “It’s hard, it’s very hard. At the time, I thought Alan’s was a throw personally but then when you see it back and it wasn’t a throw.
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