It's just over a quarter of a century since Galway's hopes for a three-in-a-row in the All-Ireland hurling championship was thrown into disarray.
Champions in 1987 and 1988, they went into the following year with a strong shout of success.
But their 1988 Texaco Hurler of the Year Tony Keady picked up a 12-month suspension as the GAA punished him for playing an exhibition game for Laois against Tipperary in the United States.
Keady had been initially informed that playing in that exhibition game (which he did under an assumed name) would not be a problem, until he was informed that it was illegal after the fact.
He and Galway's then manager Cyril Farrell joined us on Off The Ball tonight to look back at that wider period of success for the county and the rivalry with Tipperary, but also reminisced about the ban controversy.
"I'd still be bitter with the people who were involved there because the likes of Cyril, Frank Burke and Joe McDonagh put a tremendous amount of work in," said Keady.
"I just thought all along that it would settle down and that you go through all these meetings and everything with the GAA. I just thought they'd see sense and that I'd be able to hurl. I remember Cyril contacting me, saying 'you'll get off and if you come home in person there wouldn't be a problem...'"
Listen to the double interview in full via the podcast.
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