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Mon 03 Mar 2010Dublin keep revolution on track
Dublin 1-21 Tipperary 1-12:SO PICTURE this. Dublin returned to Parnell Park yesterday with their banners lowered and their morale tattered and their ambitions whittled. A bad thumping seven days previously had exposed them. And yesterday they faced Tipp, a team well equipped to do more than expose Dublin. Another whupping might have ended the revolution.
There are a few minutes left. Dublin have 21 scores on the board. One goal and 20 points. Fine picking. Peter Kelly, a young Lucan lad of immense but hitherto unconsummated promise, bends himself in the air and catches a Tipperary puc-out. He puts the ball on his stick and sets off.
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