Handover of power

THE SPORTS editor in this place gets a little cranky at times. Write what you really think, sez he, that Cork have seen the whites of Kerry’s eyes and discovered that being that close to the green and gold monster didn’t fill them with dread. Talk about 1987, and that stuff.

I was going to anyway, I said, advising him to quieten down before he did himself some harm.

It’s true. There are similarities to 22 years ago — it’s just that the present Cork players can’t see it yet, just as I couldn’t see it when I went out that day to mark Pat Spillane in Páirc Ui Chaoimh.