At the height of Covid lockdown in the summer of 2020, with no sporting fixtures to distract and the world taking pause to lean back into nostalgia, the BBC had an interview with Peter Canavan to mark a quarter of a century since the defining game of the Tyrone-Derry rivalry.
Looking back at it now, spectator culture has mellowed from the atmospheres in the ‘90s clashes between the two. By 1995, the will to win hung like desperation in the air.
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- May 1, 2022
