Never before has a footballer featured in as many titanic games as Tomás Ó Sé and Gooch

A little over a week after the 2005 All-Ireland football final, this writer received an email from a fairly irate Kerry supporter.

The previous Sunday in a national newspaper, I had proclaimed the Tyrone-Kerry shootout of that September as one of the best five All-Ireland finals of the previous 30 years.

Also in that elite quintet of games I had down the immortal Seamus Darby final of 1982, along with Armagh’s breakthrough win in 2002.