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Mon 07 Jul 2007Epic draws best from gladiatorsGAELIC GAMES:Top of a blank page and Cork and Waterford were level. Half-time and nothing separated them. This dream of a game expired and when the bottom line was filled in they were still tied. We walked out into the evening sunlight thanking the blue skies for days like this and the possibilities of a replay which offers so many fresh narratives.Some games leapfrog their designation within a season and become defining moments. This was a quarter-final and the other three games played out in Croke Park over the weekend were all accorded the same status. Largely those games were banal and error-ridden. This though was an opera, a symphony, a wonder. Two teams of indomitable character refusing to yield. An uplifting climax to a long weekend. It ended in some controversy but it seems just that both sides can awaken this morning and still tune their ears to the siren song of September.