Setting foundations

THE ALLIANZ Football League returns on Saturday night in a blaze of floodlight glory and publicity.

It is a welcome departure for a competition which seems permanently strapped to the whipping post of public opinion. Each and every year, more and more seem to enjoy a lash off of it, dismissing it all in the greater scheme of championship things.

Few in Kerry and Cork will listen to such assertions this week as both emerge from a fog of crisis and confusions. Talk is only of tickets as Pairc Uí Rhinn is dusting down the House Full sign for the historic meeting which will also be beamed into thousands of homes courtesy of the TG4 revolution.