Football is a very simple game. It is for men like Diarmuid Connolly anyway.
Penalties are a very simple thing.
What's to it? The ball goes where you put it. It just so happens that Dublin's finest could land his on a sixpence if you asked him to.
So, when you sit him in front of 83,000 people, when you put him in an All-Ireland final replay that's tied again, placing a ball on a spot doesn't faze him. It's a ball after all and the St. Vincent's man has ultimate control over those little round things.
For him, it was just a case of putting it into the bottom corner.
That's it.
No occasion, no surroundings, just a man with a ball. A special man.
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Connolly is a shoe-in for a second All-Star. The black card to Lee Keegan helped his cause during the crucial decider on Saturday but he had just kicked a left-footed beauty before the defender was given his marching orders and it was him who forced the Westport man into the foul.
He kicked 1-1 of Dublin's 1-15 and once again took all the plaudits of the Hill.
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