Kerry invention can counter Dublin’s chameleons

If there was one lesson Kerry learned from their tussles with the Tyrone team of the last decade it was no two games are ever the same against a great rival and in order to come out on the right side of the tie, the game must be played without fear.

The individuals involved in all three of Tyrone’s big championship wins over Kerry didn’t change a whole pile over the six seasons between 2003 and 2008, but, as a unit, Tyrone always seemed capable of morphing into something new. Every time you met Tyrone you learned the more precisely you had measured the ‘what’, the less likely you were to be able to gauge the ‘who’, the ‘when’ or the ‘where’.

Like a strange subversion of science’s Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the more precisely Tyrone’s position was determined, the less precisely their momentum was known. Thus they always prevailed.