Peter Keane: ‘They can be really proud of the work they did in the second half’

Peter Keane told reporters afterwards that he did not watch Saturday’s Dublin-Mayo semi-final (“there was no point, we were worrying about ourselves”), but he clearly heard some of the commentary which followed the Dubs’ comprehensive win as the Kerry manager was incredibly quick off the mark when it was put to him that nobody was giving the Kingdom a prayer on September 1.

“I left the dressing-room below and our goalkeeper Shane Ryan was on the phone to Gerard Murphy of Vincent Murphy’s Sports in Castleisland. His biggest problem was would he get two pairs of boots or three pairs of boots [for the final] because he’d have the boots worn out so much from kicking the ball out to Dublin. That is going to be the biggest problem,” quipped the Kerry manager before hightailing it back to the winning dressing room with a broad grin etched across his face.