Paddy Kelly: The second coming of the thinking man’s footballer

What has happened to Cork? When the last time you could actually trust the county’s footballers to deliver on the big day? Paddy Kelly knows the issues. “We haven’t had a big scalp in the championship the last few years. Even saying that, we sound like of the smaller counties, but this is a huge opportunity to put that right.”

HE’S football’s great forgotten man.

So much so, that while you observed the decline of Cork the last four or so years, you hardly ever thought of the correlation between their downturn and his injury woes.