Championship Preview: John Evans and the footballers of tomorrow

Never mind this September. Who’ll be football top dogs at the end of 2018? And does John Evans know something the rest of us don’t?

Championship Preview: John Evans and the footballers of tomorrow
Fri, 22 May, 2015 - 01:00
Kieran Shannon

AT FIRST, it seemed such an un-Kerry thing to do.

Straight after his players had won the Division Two final, John Evans was talking them up rather than playing them down, the reverse of what his native county is renowned to do.

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