Cork football followers trained to beware the guides of March

Such is the haste from which Cork football runs away from anything current to view everything through the distorted prism of July’s first Sunday, we can summarily discount yesterday’s 11-point victory over Kerry as utterly irrelevant, says Tony Leen.

Only at Páirc Ui Rinn after an 11-point spring dusting of the All-Ireland champions could a Cork football man in sackcloth and ashes welcome a Kerryman at the dressing room door by querying ‘when are ye going to stop taking the piss out of us like this?’

Oddly Eamonn Fitzmaurice didn’t share the joke. Nor did his group of players who stormed across the Boreenmanna Road afterwards to their team bus with faces of thunder.