The Padhraic Mannion kick was extraordinary bad luck. He probably thought that anywhere would do at that stage. Funnily enough, I donât think Cillian Buckley even struck the winning goal particularly well but it made it more difficult to throw a body in front of than if heâd struck it cleanly.
I also didnât realise that Shane Walsh was on the Kilkenny 26 until I saw that video of the TJ Reid impersonator post-match. Rory Stories posted the video stealing someone else likes. Grrrrrr.
If anything Mannion caught the kick too well. Had he scuffed it along the ground then Buckley likely would have had to go down and pick it and his momentum would have been halted and Galway likely get enough bodies around him. But the kick was pinged right into his paw. He didnât even have to break stride.
Buckleyâs shot was a medium pace delivery. A faster ball might have caught Jack Grealish who was running across his shot. Grealish in turn unsighted the goalkeeper who was in a good position to save it otherwise.
As well as putting the kibosh on Galway, Buckley has likely put the kibosh on his own wedding.
He also enabled a viral INTERNET moment for a soon to be married spectator, which could have long running disastrous effects for that spectator in a similar manner to how viral INTERNET moments ruined the lives of Frostbit Boy and that man who slipped on the ice and snow in Church Street.
Not since Tony Fearon has somebody made such a catastrophic mistake in assuming the date of an All-Ireland final.