The weekend of sport with OTB’s John Duggan
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What happened in the All-Ireland Hurling Final between Galway and Cork?
John Duggan, we have much to talk about in sport. And first of all, we'll briefly mention the hurling cork out.
Cork out and we're highly favoured to beat Galway yesterday, lost by 11 points. Last year, they turned up in the final against Tipperary, had a bad second half, got a couple of points and not too dissimilar story yesterday. There were five points up at one stage. The last 42 minutes of the game, Galway outscored them by 119 to six points and Galway won by 11 points. Big questions there. Some big questions for Cork, who've had their longest famine in their history. Fantastic support, have done everything right. In Munster, won the Munster title last year, beat Limerick a couple of times a couple of years ago. We're close to the Munster final this year, won every game in the round robin. But at Croke Park, it's become their kryptonite in recent years.
This year, the final last year against Tipperary, the final against Clare a couple of years ago. It's not the Cork. The year I was born, past Cork had won the most hurling titles of anybody. This is the county of Christy Ring and Jimmy Barry Murphy. They've lost their aura and they need to get it back. And for Galway... Kind of come out of nowhere to a degree. They won the Leinster title, then they now play Clare or Limerick in the final in a couple of weeks, which is going to be great colourful. Who are you calling today for Limerick, Clare? I'm calling for Limerick, yes. My father's and mother's county is actually Clare and Limerick. I would have followed the Clare hurlers through my dad, but I think Limerick will win today.
Now, the rugby yesterday, a bit of a thriller in Sydney.
It was 33-31 to Ireland. This is a nation's championship. That's a new venture to replace the friendlies. And Ireland were conceded four tries in the first half. And you're thinking, well, they're going to be up against it. But the thing about this is, Pat, it's not a surprise that Ireland are now winning down in Australia with an Andy Farrell side. It's become a routine thing to expect that. And to be fair to Sam Prendergast, who's had a A tough year in some ways with being in favour, being out of favour. To nail those kicks was important and Ireland getting five tries to win.
It was interesting. It was master versus student really, wasn't it?
Yeah, Schmish and Farrell. Schmish will be bullying because he's leaving Australia soon and has not beaten Ireland.
And they could have taken it with the last kick of the game.
They could have. Ben Donaldson missed one. But that's it. You've got to nail your kicks, as we know. And Japan and New Zealand now to come for Ireland in the next few weeks.
Now, let's talk World Cup. And we'll talk about the most recent controversy. And that was the behaviour of Paraguay last night and the referee. Inexplicable. Disgraceful from Paraguay.
Living up to every bad stereotype. They were thugs last night, basically. Yeah, they were a disgrace. They deserve their flight home. France beat them 1-0. Paraguay didn't have a shot on target. France is 76% of the ball. There was kicking, there was play acting. France got a penalty. They were scuffing up the spot. And Mbappé just silenced them, put it away for his seventh goal of the tournament.
I mean, the keeper approached Mbappé before that kick and stood right in his face. Six foot six.
Orlando Heal, yes. And then at the end of the game, he tried to shake Mbappé's hand and Mbappé just ignored him. When they were trying to rough up Mbappé, he was laughing at them. He dealt with it superbly. He's never won the Ballon d'Or, the Player of the Year award. Mbappé, he's gunning for it now at this World Cup. They're the best team I've seen. Spain, not too far behind them. But it'd be France, Morocco now in the quarterfinals.
The other controversy during the week was Croatia and Portugal and that disallowed goal. I was reminded of my school days. Hotspur. Henry IV Part 1. I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
It was the snickometer.
The snickometer.
As they're using cricket now these days, Pat, which decided that it was not a Croatia goal.
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