Éamonn Fitzmaurice Q&A: 'Don’t worry, there’s plenty of grief to be got in Kerry if you go looking for it'

Ahead of Sunday’s renewal of hostilities with Mayo, Éamonn Fitzmaurice discusses money, the top four, fatherhood and the form of Kieran Donaghy with Tony Leen.

Question: The popular narrative as we head into the first of the All-Ireland football semi finals is that the top four seem to be breaking away from the rest?

Éamonn Fitzmaurice: I disagree with it. I think the margins are a lot smaller. The quarter-finals threw up big wins but I don’t think the margins are as big as people think they are. Last year you had Tipperary as one of the last four. I know at the start of this year people predicted the top four — but you wouldn’t have predicted a lot of the other things that went on in the championship. You wouldn’t have predicted Down beating Monaghan. Armagh beating Kildare. Maybe people would have given Galway a chance of beating Mayo in Salthill but they’d have said they’d learn from the year before. So there is always upsets. There is always plenty of talking points. I don’t know what more people want really.