Armagh have paid the penalty

IN Armagh, they still talk about the penalty and what could have been. They reckon no man could take a penalty like Bill McCorry.

His tree stump legs unleashed the hardest shot in the north. Jim McKnight, a survivor from Armagh's first All-Ireland final, recalled the man responsible for the most infamous miss in their history.

"Bill took the best penalties I ever saw. He would make sure ball, keeper, everything would go behind the line." On that September afternoon 49 years ago, McCorry hitting a penalty as hard as he ever had, watched it sail past the post and wide. For the remaining 12 minutes, the Armagh flame simply flickered as Kerry captured their 17th All-Ireland title.