This column last week spoke about part of the process required for managers to recruit the correct personnel to optimise performance for their players. The headline: ‘If you are standing still, you are also going backwards’, suggested success is hard won through embracing the fact past failures will lead to future gains, so long as you have the capacity to frame failure as an opportunity to learn and not blame.

Sport is about results.

As Éamonn Fitzmaurice bowed out last Saturday as Kerry senior football manager, he referred to one of the less savoury aspects of walking a summer sideline with BAINISTEOIR on your back.

The process to find Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s successor as Kerry senior football manager could take up to two months from the time the selection committee is established later this week.

I was in a bar down the road from Fitzgerald Stadium before the Kerry-Kildare game last Saturday. The volume on the TV was turned up as the Irish women’s hockey team began their second penalty shoot-out of the tournament for a place in the final of the World Cup.

“It’s time for something new in Tipp. The group of players, we want to give them the best chance going forward. They just want to hear something new. I’ve been there a very long time and I’m certain sure those guys needed a break from me.”

ÉamonnFitzmaurice stood down as Kerry Football Manager on Saturday afternoon, following their All-Ireland Football Championship exit this evening.

The middle ground in Kerry has become a sparsely populated plain. On either side, the badlands of hard-ass opinion on football and Eamonn Fitzmaurice festers.

You were a very long time in the dressing room, Éamonn, was there a reason for that?

The middle ground in Kerry has become a sparsely populated plain. On either side, the badlands of hard-ass opinion on football and Eamonn Fitzmaurice festers.

Éamonn Fitzmaurice, announcing his resignation as Kerry football manager, believes he was a “lightning rod” for the criticism and negativity which stalked his team in recent weeks and months.

Kerry boss Éamonn Fitzmaurice admits that the negativity and criticisms faced by inter-county players in the social media age are “challenging”.

Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice called on the Kingdom faithful to justify their billing as football-mad people in next Saturday’s make-or-break clash with Kildare in Killarney.

He weighed up the odds in his head. Kerry, 5/1 for the All-Ireland?

It won’t stimulate anything like the debate over Kerry’s defence for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final in Killarney, but it should.

A fractured relationship exists between the Kerry football management and supporters of the team, Kingdom boss Éamonn Fitzmaurice has admitted.

Maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Éamonn Fitzmaurice was keeping a record of exactly what he was doing this spring.

The ebb and flow nature of Kerry’s league opener against Donegal was the ideal learning environment for the Kingdom’s emerging cast, according to Paul Murphy.

The interview with Éamonn Fitzmaurice wasn’t 40 seconds old when the Kerry manager first made reference to a “three-year plan”.

County chairman Tim Murphy insists that the two-year extension to Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s tenure as county senior football manager was “the best outcome for Kerry”.

The disappointment on Leeside that Páirc Uí Chaoimh will not be ready for the Munster football final is shared in the Kingdom.

The disappointment on Leeside that Páirc Uí Chaoimh will not be ready for the Munster football final is shared in the Kingdom, Kerry football manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice said last night.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has launched a robust defence of Brendan O’Sullivan, the player at the centre of the anti-doping violation case, and criticised the protracted Sport Ireland process that dragged on for over a year.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice wasn’t biting when asked about former Dublin star Paul Curran’s comments that the Kingdom should be “ashamed of themselves”, preferring to focus on his side’s upcoming league final against Dublin after beating Tyrone.

Colm Cooper met with Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice yesterday to discuss a Kerry return or retirement from the inter-county game at 33. Tony Leen examines the possible issues at play.

Éamonn Fitzmaurice is anticipating a warm reception in this weekend’s NFL clash against Donegal, particularly after last year’s stormy encounter between Kerry and the northerners.

But Dublin boss Jim Gavin is certain Kerry will bounce back from their NFL final defeat.

Kerry football manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has warned of disruption to club fixtures in the county should the Kingdom advance to a league final.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has challenged growing assertions that the demands placed on inter-county footballers are both unreasonable and unsustainable.

By Tony Leen

Fitzmaurice says all of his players are fit enough to continue too, if they choose to do so.

Our panel look at the influence of the managers on Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Fitzmaurice concludes his three year term in charge of Kerry after Sunday's decider and is keeping his cards very close to his chest regarding a further term at the helm.

Former Kerry defender Stephen Stack believes that Kingdom manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice will “pick two teams” for the All-Ireland final.

Former Kerry manager Jack O’Connor believes Jim Gavin has no more tricks left up his sleeve after Dublin had to play all their trump cards to defeat Mayo in a replay.

It became an iconic image, the day football changed forever. 

Eamonn Fitzmaurice was not able to provide a prognosis on James O’Donoghue’s shoulder injury following yesterday’s All-Ireland quarter-final.