The Gooch scores big on Kerry wonders list

PIN-UP Gaelic football star Colm “Gooch” Cooper has made the shortlist of 17 from which the Seven Wonders of Kerry will be chosen.

One of the surprises in the vote for the shortlist, however, is that the iconic Killarney man is the only footballer to get on this particular ‘team’ — despite the fact that Kerry has produced dozens of big ball legends.

Strangely, none of the stars of the 1970s and ’80s, who comprised what many aficionados believe to be the greatest team of all time, and those who went before them, made it.