He was hailed as Monaghan’s “greatest ever clutch player” by manager Vinny Corey and Conor McManus insisted he always felt there’d be one last play to salvage their quarter-final clash with Armagh.
The Orchard fans inside Croke Park celebrated as though Rian O’Neill’s superb point from over 50 metres was the winning score. With two minutes and 22 seconds of three minutes of injury-time played at the end of extra-time, the odds were stacked against Monaghan pulling this one out of the fire.
Yet, this current Farney team have a habit of making a mockery of post-match predictions and already clinched stoppage-time winners against Tyrone and Kildare earlier in the Championship.
