Maher: We didn’t want to lose classic

Winning a Championship classic was mentioned as a motivation in the Kerry camp in the lead-up to Saturday’s epic extra-time win over Mayo, Anthony Maher has revealed.

The county had lost its fair share of memorable matches prior to last weekend such as their 2002, 2008 and 2011 finals as well as last year’s All-Ireland semi against Dublin.

Maher’s midfielder partner David Moran had hinted about the pre-match discussion after the game. “We lost last year to Dublin in an absolute cracker so we wanted to get back a step further and that was enough motivation for us”.