Lacey: Kerry were the team we all looked up to

Take a look back on the Jimmy’s Winning Matches documentary — it’s on YouTube — and it’s clear Donegal in 2012 took more stock out of beating Kerry than any other game.

“We were watching Kerry play quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals year-in, year-out the last 10 to 12 years and, you know, they were the team we looked up to,” said Karl Lacey.

“We’d always seen them as the benchmark of football,” said Eamon McGee. “I always thought to myself coming into the game that this is a career game where you find out whether you’re good enough to be there or not.” He added: “We were up by four or five points at one stage and then I realised ‘we are a good team’.”