I miss physical tickets, especially for the AIF

Called into my FIL to check up on him (twist the knife) last night after a week+ of acting like a lunatic back home and couldn't help but feel a slight touch a jealousy at his mementos of Galway's big days out.

He has his Match programme, a copy of the Connacht Tele and his absolutely beautiful tickets from the 98 and 01 All Ireland finals all framed and surrounded by two maroon and white ribbons (and more central on the wall than the pictures of his daughter's)

Don't get me wrong, I completely understand the improved traceability of the digital ticket and the need to consign the man with the USA biscuit tin to the past (*especially* in Mayo GAA, McKenna is waiting for the craic to die down this week before he drops the latest set of articles on how we're cowboys financially). But I wish there was a happy medium where if given the choice you submit your unique Foireann ID to your club and instead of getting a set of 1s and 0s that's already deleted itself from my phone you got a lovely old style ticket.

It's a small thing and not all that important at the end of the day but it just would've been nice to have, I still have all the old heartbreak tickets from 16-17 as bookmarks for the team tab in the match programmes.