Premature? Not a chance. The win was baked and caked. As Jack O’Connor said afterwards, Cork won pulling up.
Even if a subdued Darran O’Sullivan pointed two minutes later, any chance of a Kerry goal — and there had been a few — had disappeared by the break.
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