Practice makes perfect

ANALYSE this, as Robert de Niro, would say. Two missed penalties, a sending off, blood and bandages and yet more than 38,000 fans left Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday as muted as an enclosed order.

Kerry's Dara Ó Cinnéide didn't even notice that his side had been reduced to 14 men until he enquired of the sideline why Limerick's half-back line were mopping up everything in sight.

"A poor game as a spectacle," the-final's leading scorer reflected.