‘There’s only one John Egan’

KERRY 2-16 ANTRIM 1-18: An hour after Saturday’s game had ended, the Kerry players were still lifting the roof of their Parnell Park dressing-room with song.

The one getting most air time was ‘One John Egan, there’s only one John Egan’. There were also several renditions of, ‘We’re going up, we’re going up, Kerry are going up’, sang to the tune of England’s Euro ’96 ditty, ‘football’s coming home’.

That was apt because normally it is indeed football that’s coming home to Kerry.