{"id":408037,"date":"2026-03-28T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/408037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:23:16","slug":"philly-mcmahon-why-the-paudie-clifford-all-ireland-final-narrative-completely-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/408037\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly McMahon: Why the Paudie Clifford All-Ireland final narrative completely misses the point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The conclusion was that leaving influential Kerry forward free represented an egregious miscalucation on the part of Jim McGuinness \u2013 it\u2019s never that simple\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paudie Clifford in possession with Jamie Brennan of Donegal giving chase during last year's All-Ireland SFC final. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2f72cef5-b42f-4c76-b7ba-be36eb9e2227.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paudie Clifford in possession with Jamie Brennan of Donegal giving chase during last year&#8217;s All-Ireland SFC final. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In Gaelic football, consensus is the killer of decent analysis. Most of us consume online information and opinion during matches now. Our take on what\u2019s going on and why is already heavily influenced by the time it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The conversation moves quickly. Theories snowball. By the time The Sunday Game goes on air, the narratives are already established. A classic example being last year\u2019s All-Ireland final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conclusion was that leaving influential Kerry forward free represented an egregious miscalucation on the part of Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10416,184213,80069,1007,17159,18,19,17,43602,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-408037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-kerry-gaa","9":"tag-all-ireland-senior-football-championship","10":"tag-allianz-football-league","11":"tag-croke-park","12":"tag-donegal-gaa","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-philly-mcmahon","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116305370132601883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}