In Waterford this week they could have hooked the grid to the rumour mill and saved us all a lot of yakity-yak about the energy crisis. The hurling team are over-trained. No, actually, the hurling team are under-trained. Two of them were sick as dogs going into the Cork game. They didn’t go on the lash after winning the league and now they’re paying for it.
All the worst old guff, of course. But nothing says crisis like the fact that people are prepared to believe anything now. Waterford have somehow gone from being second favourites for the All-Ireland after their …

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