Sweetest ever for Kerry kids
Possibly the sweetest ever. It may have been their 37th time doing it and yet this was like none before, sealed by a performance and a winning scoreline so unKerry-like.
Go back to pre-Munster final and how James O’Donoghue, the Footballer of the Year in waiting, was deep in reflection about how much the Kerry public were running down their own players. “You’re kind of questioning are you a true Kerry player and do you deserve to be wearing that shirt?” he shrugged, recalling that period.