Jennifer Horgan: I may as well be an alien when it comes to sport, but the emotions fascinate me
The anger and vitriol levelled against the Cork hurling team after last Sunday's All-Ireland final speaks to a deeper kind of social discontent. Namely — if something goes wrong in sport, or in life — somebody must be blamed
Cork hurling fan Michael John Murphy, who got the words 'Cork All Ireland Senior Hurling Champions 2025' on his arm ahead of the game against Tipperary on Sunday, said he would be keeping the tattoo. Picture: Larry Cummins
There are sport enthusiasts, millions of them, and then there’s me — the oddball, the outsider, the weirdo scanning a crowd of fans like a scientist peering onto a petri dish.
Sit me down in front of anything, from a showstopping Wimbledon final to a nail-biting Olympic sprint, and I will feel nothing. Come any kind of match day, I’m an intergalactic traveller.
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