Oisín McConville: Tyrone can take you to an oxygen debt you’ve never been to

Tyrone know every trick in the book and I’ve a begrudging admiration for them in the way they do things

Kerry manager Peter Keane shakes hands with his players after the defeat. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

Tyrone are very good at match-ups

Traditionally, when you ever thought about match-ups it was from a defensive perspective when player X would take, or try to, take player Y out of the game. For example, Ronan McNamee on David Clifford, you’d think the Tyrone full-back’s remit would be a simplistic one, a one-liner instructing him to snuff the type of persistent danger the Kerry captain is known for. Same with Pádraig Hampsey on Seán O’Shea or Conor Meyler tracking Paudie Clifford, who left very little of an impression on the game as a whole.