Colm Cooper: Horrible Tyrone won by hook or by crook

Tyrone beat Kerry in the 2005 final and while Cooper accepts Mickey Harte’s men deserved their victory, he was unimpressed with their win-at-all-costs attitude.

Writing in his new autobiography, Gooch, Colm Cooper has been strongly critical of the underhand tactics and ‘sledging’ employed by Kerry’s bitter rivals Tyrone during his career and names the player who struck him in the eye during the 2005 All-Ireland final.

Tyrone beat Kerry in that final and while Cooper accepts Mickey Harte’s men deserved their victory, he was unimpressed with their win-at-all-costs attitude.