LEINSTER SFC FINAL:

It’s up to Cork to try and figure Colm Cooper, aka Pythagoras in boots, out. The suspicion is that Kerry’s talisman will keep them guessing long enough tomorrow for Kerry to disappear through the front door.

For those of us sceptical about the stock placed by managers in league performances when championship rolls around, we need only look at Kildare this weekend.

ULSTER SFC SEMI-FINAL:

I’ve been working the best part of this last week in Boston. One of the first people I bumped into at the annual Boston Irish Fest last weekend in the Irish Cultural Centre was the great box player, my neighbour Seamus Begley from Baile na bPoc in West Kerry.

Our columnist examines the reasons behind the ever-increasing tendency of county players to jump ship to the USA in the middle of the championship season

It’s the question we’ve been asking all week, isn’t it? Whether Dublin are going to continue with the sunshine football or else resort to a more pragmatic game based on modern realities.

When you say it’s gonna happen “now”

With the National League, it’s always a question of interpretation.

It struck me while watching the Kerry v Cork game from the terrace in Austin Stack Park recently that there is a huge gulf between the football being played out on the field and the supporters expectations of same.