No double vision in Cork camp

DON’T talk about the “double” to the Cork footballers!

Okay, it’s there in the background, the prospect of Billy Morgan’s team getting to the All-Ireland final and “joining” the hurlers, even the possibility of twin successes to emulate the achievement of the teams of 1990. Billy Morgan was the coach back then and one of his selectors was Sean Murphy, a Cork star of the ‘70’s who is again part of the current management team.

Fifteen years ago, the Cork teams qualified for the finals on consecutive Sundays - the hurlers first (with a win over Antrim) and the footballers by beating Roscommon. Murphy’s recollection is that at the time “it was more a public thing” than something which preoccupied the minds of players. “The public are again talking of a double, but that’s a long, long way away,” he comments.