Mick Slocum: Cork are at a crossroads

Former Cork footballer Mick Slocum has warned of a massive backlash if Brian Cuthbert’s charges exit the All-Ireland championship this weekend.

Defeat to Kerry in last Saturday’s Munster SFC replay returned the Rebels down the backroads for a third consecutive summer and Slocum is fearful of the repercussions were Cork to suffer a second consecutive championship loss in the space of eight-days.

Such are the fine margins at this stage of the championship, he added, that Cork’s summer “could just as easily take flight” if their fourth round qualifier opponents, Kildare, are conquered.