Kieran Shannon: Even Kerry v Dublin won't save this football year
DEJECTED: Cork's Eoghan McSweeney dejected after the defeat to Derry. Pic: INPHO/Evan Treacy
All credit to Roy Keane, as one of his best-known mimics might have him say. For all the jibes that can be thrown at anyone who watches Gaelic football, and especially anyone who follows the Cork footballers, there he was again on Sunday, watching John Cleary’s men in the flesh, just as he took in their All-Ireland quarter-final last year as well.
It’s not like Keane just reserves his presence until the team reaches Croke Park either and there’s a corporate box in which he can nibble on something else other than prawn sandwiches. For Cork’s opening game of last year’s championship, against Kerry down in Páirc Uí Rinn, Keane and a few of his mates were spotted by the Sky Sports cameras laughing and watching on from the terraces like a bunch of young lads.
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