Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Tyrone’s appetite, spirit, and resolve still remain Kerry’s kryptonite

Any conspiracy theories around the Covid situation are completely irrelevant and of no interest to me. Kerry would have prepared for the best version of Tyrone and that is certainly what they got

NO WAY THROUGH: Kerry’s Diarmuid O’Connor finds his route to goal blocked by Tyrone players, from left, Mark Bradley, Ben McDonnell, Michael McKernan, and Darragh Canavan, during Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final at Croke Park.  Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

So the famous Tyrone ambush is alive and well.

The initial set of traps were set in Killarney in the league game in mid June. On the Irish Examiner podcast in the lead in to the Ulster final, I mentioned that Tyrone had trained the morning of the game doing both a gym session and going for a run in Killarney National Park. It was greeted with a mixture of scorn and apathy. Here again was the Kerry mafia trying to play it cute, when in actual fact all I was doing was pointing out what happened. I didn’t mention that the players also had a few beers together over the course of their two-night stay.