Why Hawk-Eye and Croke Park can’t get their numbers right; and why Seán O’Shea has timed his return to form perfectly
Monaghan’s Conor McManus sends the game against Armagh to penalties after kicking a late free. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Stephen Cluxton is 41 and made his debut with Dublin in 2001 while Michael Fitzsimons has been on the go with the Dubs since 2010. Dean Rock played O’Byrne Cup football with Dublin in 2009. After a delay, the above message appeared and the original decision stood – which to be fair, looked accurate on video review.
This designation has to be recorded as 82,300, the official capacity of the stadium. Yet that was rarely or never the case and even All-Ireland final attendances when officially published in the following year’s annual report come in at totals such as 82,279 or 82,284, to take 2017 as an example.Clearly it would be nit-picking to regard this as misinformation and anything around 80,000 could be for practical purposes be regarded as a “Full House”.
But having found some measure of his form through the round-robin series, he was terrific against Tyrone on Saturday. All the hosannas for Clifford’s pass to Tony Brosnan overshadowed the fact that O’Shea finished his goal with aplomb. He whipped a couple of points from play as well. Kerry counter-attacked with searing directness on Saturday, Dublin hit Mayo with head-on directness after half-time on Sunday. And Mayo’s best score? When Aidan O’Shea caught a Colm Reape kick-out at centrefield and hit Ryan O’Donoghue with a lightning pass; the inside forward gathered the ball on the bounce and kicked it over the bar on his second stride. Three kicks the length of the field, and a point.
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