O’Sullivan: I wasn’t enjoying it any more

Former Kerry footballer Sean O’Sullivan dismissed claims he quit the county panel last month because he was substituted in the first-half of the home Allianz Football League defeat to Armagh.

When the Cromane clubman announced his retirement — for a second time, just days after that loss to Armagh, it was rumoured O’Sullivan walk away from the panel in disgust at having been taken off so early but he has admitted that his reasoning had nothing to do with that, and simply down to the fact that he wasn't enjoying his football.

“Was I disappointed to be taken off against Armagh? Of course I was. It wasn’t a particularly great night for any of the forwards and I got hauled off before half-time. The management are there to make calls, and in my entire Kerry career I have never gone against the management or any decisions they have made that they feel were for the good of the team. I had made up my mind I was going before the first two league games. I used those two games to see how things went for me.