Kingdom can shackle Galway’s forward threat

THERE would be a fair degree of unanimity that Galway footballers are not in the same class as Kerry, their opponents in the second of the All-Ireland quarter-finals in Croke Park this afternoon (4pm).

And while that on its own won’t decide the outcome, it indicates that Liam Sammon’s team will need to perform consistently at a high level if they are to record their first championship win over the Kingdom since 1965.

That was in the middle final of their three-in-a-row sequence (with Sammon a member of the ‘66 side) and it’s coincidental that Kerry are this year chasing the first treble since they themselves achieved it in 1986.