For the love of the game

THE first thing to keep in mind. The need to notch up a score in every game.

Sean Kelly will not get to parade in Croke Park at half-time on All-Ireland day this year with the Kerry silver jubilee crew, all of them his contemporaries.

Kelly never quite made it at county level. He rattles off what he had going for him that nearly got him there. Handy club player, with a handy left foot. Steeped in tradition. Kilcummin the club. St Brendan's the school.