‘I am old enough now to be able to take it and put a positive spin on it nearly to go again’
“The two of us contested it,” recalls Mannion. “My hurl was kind of in front of me and just whatever way we collided, maybe my hands were probably a bit sweaty and greasy as well because it was so warm, it just slid out of my hand.
“I could see a Kilkenny player in my left eyeline and I didn’t really want to kick it towards him, so I just said I would kick it as far as I could,” he adds. He had spotted Buckley ambling forward during the early phase of the play, when the sliotar was bogged down in the corner. “I watched it back because I was thinking I had made a terrible error kicking it, but then looking back I probably wouldn’t change a whole lot about it either.
“If I was younger I would say it would probably affect me more, whereas now I am nearly one of the older players in experience,” explains Mannion. Galway have won just three Leinster senior hurling titles – the last of which was in 2018. Their most recent All-Ireland win was in 2017, which was also the year Mannion won the first of his three All Stars.
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