The Darragh O'Se column - Irish Times

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What seems quite clear is that these hard lads from Armagh weren't brave enough to start a bit of a melee with Monaghan. 

That's because you Monaghan men are hard as f**k

[Throw ball]

I even noticed Heaney stating that Murray would not let go of McCurry's hand when they shook hands on Sunday. How does he know it was not the other way around?

Come on, maybe because Mc Curry's hand recoiled with speed where Murray's didn't when the grip was released!

If Mc Keever did off the pitch what he did on it on Sunday, he could be looking at a custodial sentence very soon -- it was sneaky, and very dangerous, to charge at anyone with an elbow raised to neck/head height on their blind side. And it was more by chance than design that Cavanagh wasn't badly injured.*

It would have been a travesty had Armagh not won that game, and won well, such was their superiority all over the park. We've regressed badly, no doubt about it, but that's another story. Good luck to Armagh for the remainder, but they really need to lose this 'aggro' aspect that has been introduced, whether by design or accident.

* And I won't keep going on, and on, and on, about it, for 11 years, or more.

My argument is not with Tyrone or McCurry. I am just highlighting how a media agenda can skew the argument against one team or other. I would have thought Tyrone people would have seen enough of that for themselves.