Kingdom eyes on the prize
Actually, no. Picking holes in Kerry’s progress to the All-Ireland semi-final might appear churlish, but the analysis is as frank within the squad as outside it. Said captain Dara Ó Cinnéide: “If you wanted to start picking holes in that performance, you could start in the first minute and not finish until the 75th.”
Jack O’Connor is in charge of a county that can’t win even when it wins, but once he had dispensed with the pious platitudes after their 1-15 to 1-8 quarter-final victory, he returned to reality: “it’s a step on the road, that’s all it is. We have our eyes on the big prize and we can play better.