Kevin Walsh: If Damien Comer plays well, Galway can win

There can’t be an inevitability about a Kerry win when they have yet to get over the line, and indeed have fallen to poor defeats in games that possessed the same apparent predictability

VITAL: Damien Comer of Galway celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final match between Derry and Galway at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

It is logical that Kerry be favourites for the All-Ireland final but I don’t buy the notion that it’s written in the stars. There can’t be an inevitability about a result when the group of players in question have yet to get over the line, and indeed have fallen to poor defeats in games that possessed the same apparent predictability.

I’m thinking of the Munster semi-final against Cork in 2020 and last year’s All-Ireland semi-final against Tyrone. And even before that, while they wouldn’t have been favourites, they had the All-Ireland for the taking against Dublin in the drawn game and couldn’t see it through.