Tierney lays into ‘over-hyped’ Rebels

CORK footballers have been dismissed as “over-hyped, ineffective and hugely disappointing” but are still one of 10 teams who could win the All-Ireland this year.

Tierney lays into ‘over-hyped’ Rebels

So says former Armagh goalkeeper, Benny Tierney, who also labelled the 2009 championship as being of “absolute mediocrity”, with Kerry emerging victorious despite being a team that was “nowhere near its’ best”.

An All-Ireland winner in 2002, Tierney also predicts that the winner of the Ulster championship may come from outside of the Armagh-Tyrone axis, for the first time since 1998, when Derry beat Donegal in the final, while adding that anyone who believes that the collective training ban was observed must also believe in the tooth fairy.

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