Today’s history is all that matters

FOR Henry Ford, history was tradition and therefore “more or less bunk”.

“The only history worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today,” he said.

This weekend, while the supporters of Kerry and Meath may pass the hours before throw-in poring over newspaper colour-pieces reminiscing about the Royal stuffing administered to the Kingdom at this stage of the championship in 2001, you can be sure that Jack O’Connor and Eamon O’Brien will be more inclined to take Mr Ford’s more jaundiced view of history.