Horan: We won’t carry baggage to Croker

MAYO manager James Horan doesn’t believe Kerry have a psychological advantage over his county despite losing three All-Ireland finals and a quarter-final to the Kingdom since 1997.

Horan: We won’t carry baggage to Croker

The Ballintubber native was wing-forward on the last Mayo side to beat Kerry in an All-Ireland semi-final in 1996 but since then the Kingdom have won the last four encounters 8-63 to 6-39, an average comfortable victory of more than seven points per game.

“Kerry have a psychological hold over a lot of teams, I suppose,” he said. “But no, not particularly [over Mayo]. You can link and trend anything really for any team if you want to go that route, but not for this team and not for where we are at the moment. We’re just looking to keep it fairly simple and training and won’t be listening to much outside of that.”

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