O’Connor anger over Spillane jibe

ALL-IRELAND winning Kerry coach Jack O'Connor has launched a stinging broadside at former Kingdom ace turned pundit Pat Spillane for comments he made after O'Connor's appointment to the Kerry hot seat.

O'Connor is furious over a jibe from Spillane about his football cv featuring a defeat to Waterford when he was still Under 21 coach to Kerry last year. “He wasn’t going on my record, he was taking the legs from under me when I hadn't coached a single game with the Kerry seniors,” O'Connor declares in an interview in today's Irish Examiner.

“There was no mention that I had trained two U21 All-Ireland winning teams, been a selector on another one, and been a selector on two All-Ireland winning senior Kerry teams. I took that very personally. I would have no time for Pat Spillane now. Anything he would say about me or Kerry football, I’d have no respect for. None.”