‘Everyone is acting as if we lost, it’s not all doom and gloom’

THE silence pervading the Kerry dressing-room is almost eerie.

This isn’t the mood of a side heading into the All-Ireland semi-final. The glum faces and creased brows. Should there not be some hollering and a few smiles? Apparently not.

“If we play like that against any of the teams left in the championship, we will get annihilated,” is Paídí Ó Sé’s stark assessment. “We started well in the first half, but I felt all through the game, our defence was very porous.”