O’Connor: our critics energised us

JACK O’CONNOR resisted the temptation to gloat after helping to deliver his third All-Ireland football title for the Kingdom in Croke Park yesterday.

O’Connor: our critics energised us
Mon, 21 Sep, 2009 - 01:00
Jim O’Sullivan

That was after he reminded us that his Kerry team didn’t get it easy in the media at times this season, commenting: “fellas like (Pat) Spillane were almost having pity on us.”

And, in celebrating their win over Cork, he recalled how perilously close they had come to going out of the championship earlier on.

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