Kerry chokers? Say it ain’t so, Joe

Amid all the indignation — righteous or not — over Joe Brolly’s Colm Cooper and Kerry remarks, it may have been lost on many that the substantive prosecution charge was that Kerry are bottlers.

Chokers you might even say. And that has a relevance this weekend.

Maybe Brolly’s thesis was calculated to jizz up Kerry for Tyrone — Derry’s nemesis — and find a home on the back of their dressing room door in Killarney. Maybe not. But even allowing for that, it shouldn’t be summarily dismissed as self-serving pap. The allegation that Kerry essentially lose their poise and stature when they are properly buffeted merits consideration. It actually does. Joe believes Kerry are flat-track bullies; suckers who hang around them long enough invariably find a route to Kerry’s glass chin. That amounts to an accusation of bottlers as I understand it.