“It’s unbelievable, it’s unbelievable. We’ve been looking for days like this for a long time. We’ve had a few very, very rough years.”
Longford’s breathless match-winner Daniel Reynolds captured what promotion and a league final spot meant to the county after his last-gasp fisted point completed the most improbable of comebacks against Wicklow last Sunday.
It was a fitting conclusion to a Division 4 campaign where the sequence of results appeared to have no rhyme or reason, no thread of logic running through them.
The FRC rule changes have had the effect of making football matches more madcap, more anarchic – and the evidence from this year’s league is that this may be even more pronounced in the lower…