Gooch doesn’t believe in luck but Kerry fortunes on the up

With a smile and a laugh, Colm Cooper puts one theory to bed quickly — him wearing the number 14 jersey has nothing to do with a ‘piseog’.

History shows no player wearing the number 13 jersey has ever captained an All-Ireland winning team, the Kerryman becoming the latest to try his hand at breaking that record last season.

With Cooper lining out in his customary top of the right spot on Saturday, the conspiratorial among us might think there was superstition in the Kerry ranks. But not so, insists Cooper. “No, no it’s not so.”