Kieran Shannon: Players change but Kerry's league song remains the same

The National Football League has had only eight teams that have won two or more leagues in consecutive years. This Sunday Jack O’Connor’s Kerry can make that nine.

Joe O'Connor of Kerry poses for a selfie after signing autographs for young supporters after the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Armagh and Kerry at BOX-IT Athletic Grounds in Armagh. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile

When it comes to deciding who the greatest Gaelic football team ever is, a couple of tiebreakers tend to sway it Dublin’s way over Micko’s team of all talents.

The most common one is that Jim Gavin’s crew managed to complete the five in a row. And that to end the argument, the core of his team remained on after he himself departed to make it six All-Irelands on the trot. By any calculation six trumps four.