The Box Seat: Pat Spillane is happy. Told you it was going to be a historic day

One way or another it’s going to be a historic day. Either the Five in a Row or 1982 Revisited. The RTÉ panel are so giddy they appear to be groping one another. You read that correctly.

Admittedly we can’t see this because the camera is on the players warming up at Croke Park. But Joe Brolly is spieling about potential problems for Kerry, specifically the fear of being made look bad by Dublin, “the fear the roof can cave in at any moment”, and is in full flow when he’s forced to break off.