Rathmore have too much in hand in the Intermediate final as Kerry clubs to the double over Tyrone
Stats incredible: David Clifford scored 20-187 in the last year while winning eight out of nine available trophies. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
Devlin is what junior football ought to be. He’s 35, he isn’t chiselled to within an inch of his life, he skates around looking like a pickpocket in search of a mark. He had a spell on the fringes of the Tyrone panel back in the day but never felt the raw need to throw himself completely into it and settled happily into club life.
It ended in the most junior football way possible. An orgy of pushing and pulling, six red cards – five of them in stoppage-time – including both Cliffords and Gareth Devlin. In truth, the only dirty act in the game was a rotten elbow from Anton Coyle that left Paudie Clifford with a cartoon fat lip. But even so, the ref spent most of the endgame going around looking for culprits like a sub-teacher who has felt the sting of a peashooter to the back of the head.
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