The highs of sport are incredible. All-Ireland finals are to be savoured. They are days that you do not forget, win or loss. But winning is what you aim for. It’s what you crave.
Yesterday was Na Fianna’s day, and they’ll savour it for some time. But the highs of victory aren’t what they are without the lows of defeat.
It’s now one of those days for Sars, bitter disappointment. Left empty handed.
But amidst that defeat, a graceful Johnny Crowley reflected honestly on their performance.
“Never got going really,” he began. “I think Cathal [McCarthy]’s chance in the very first minute would have set something for us.
“That turnover probably gave them a huge kick and we just seemed second best for large periods of the…