New football format likely to yield Mayo/Kerry quarter-final

BE CAREFUL what you wish for, because it might just come true... Okay, perhaps Kerry’s footballers were not looking to meet Cork later in the Championship after defeating them in Sunday’s Munster final at Páirc Ui Chaoimh.

In fact, the coach and several players suggested that the Rebels were a side to avoid in the qualifiers!

But the little-known fact that this year's Congress took the decision to shift the provincial sequence (ie, Munster v Connacht, Leinster v Ulster) from semi-final to quarter-final stage, makes the meeting of Munster's traditional football powers in the semi-final a real possibility.