O’Sullivan vexed on Gooch

The Kerry GAA chairman has described Colm Cooper’s wait for the Player of the Year award as “mind-boggling”.

Addressing last night’s Kerry GAA Convention at The Malton Hotel, Killarney, Patrick O’Sullivan said: “We have come to expect exceptional performances from Colm and hopefully he will not have to wait long more for the Player of the Year award. It is mind-boggling to think for all of his amazing displays that this award has so far eluded him.”

He congratulated Cooper on his eighth All Star award and James O’Donoghue on receiving his first. He described September’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Dublin as “a spectacle of football seldom seen in Croke Park”.