It was a truly astonishing performance from a team that somehow contrived to finish fourth out of 36 teams in the Champions League league phase this season. But then again, “this is the history of the Tottenham”, as the great Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini said after his Juventus team had knocked out a far, far better Spurs team than this one in the 2018 quarter-finals. Photograph: PAThere is hardly a sports team in the world less Spursy than the Kilkenny hurlers. Keeping standards as high as they’ve been in Kilkenny for the entirety of this century has been an extraordinary achievement. Kilkenny's Jordan Molloy with Kilkenny manager Derek Lyng, who made no excuses after the hammering against Galway.

Source: The Irish Times March 12, 2026 23:57 UTC