Peter Keane keeps the lid on Kerry's expectations

Peter Keane doesn’t see how Kerry have come to wear the tag of “raging hot favourites” ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland minor final with Galway.

Fair enough, a manager has to say what a manager has to say and Keane is hardly going to tell us that all his team have to do is show up in Croke Park tomorrow and the silverware is theirs. The tag that hangs from their neck, though; it hasn’t landed there by chance.

Six points is as close as any team have come within the Kerry minors this year. That result was achieved by Cork in the Munster decider on the first Sunday in July, a modest defeat when you consider the 11 and 22-point hammerings that were inflicted on Derry and Leinster champions Kildare in their two outings subsequent to that.