Kerry’s special manic Monday

DID we witness the defiant last bite of a maligned football force yesterday at Croke Park – or the greatest rope-a-dope since Ali duped Foreman way back when?

A question to which we’ll return.

What is indisputable is that Kerry’s first-half display yesterday against Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final skirted with perfection. Jack O’Connor believes the first half of the 2006 final against Mayo would be hard to better, but Kerry were on a higher plateau then.