Victory ranks with the best, says Cooper

HE may have accumulated a stack of honours at intercounty level but yesterday’s Kerry championship success with his club Dr Crokes was up there with the greatest moments in Colm Cooper’s glittering football career.

He said: “A county final is very much on par with an All-Ireland because these are the guys I’ve grown up with. We’ve lost a lot of games, we’ve cried in dressing-rooms over in Killarney and up the country.

“It’s very much a local thing and a lot of these guys haven’t achieved anything before. So I’m delighted for them,” he said.