This is not just another qualifier

I think it was Heraclitus who first said that no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Nothing stands still in this strange game of Gaelic football and thus all talk of today’s beast of a game in Killarney being a chance for Kerry to settle up for 2003, 2005 and 2008 is redundant. That water flowed under the bridge a long time ago and Kerry were swept away by it.

While it would be wrong to build up the latest clash of Kerry and Tyrone as something it is not, it would be just as wrong to dismiss it as just another round 3 qualifier game.