Oisín McConville: Monaghan in Iniskeen is Kerry's 'Stoke on a wet Tuesday night'

There has too often been a question mark hitched to Kerry’s carriage in recent years when their backs have been to the wall.

Allianz Football League Division 1, Fitzgerald Stadium, Kerry 20/2/2022 Kerry vs Donegal Donegal's Odhran McFadden Ferry and Paudie Clifford of Kerry Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie

WHEN Arsène Wenger was the Arsenal manager, his team were the perfect exemplars of a beautiful team wanting, and mostly playing, the beautiful game. Seeking to score the perfect goal, invariably always looking to make that extra pass largely defined the Wenger era but it still always carried an exclamation mark, especially towards the end of it.

Arsenal were class to watch, especially as an attacking unit, but I remember it being said by a guest analyst on Sky Sports once: ‘Let’s see what they’re like in Stoke on a Tuesday night.’ That question mark corroborated the exclamation mark on too many occasions and it ultimately became Arsenal, and Wenger’s, undoing.