Grind of playing weekend after weekend takes its toll, insists Cleary

It’s not even the 70 minutes of fare weekend after weekend after weekend where the toll is being paid. It is everything that comes before and after those two blasts of a referee’s whistle.

CHALLENGING PERIOD: John Cleary, Cork senior football manager, pictured at a press evening in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. Pic: George Hatchell

Come Sunday evening, John Cleary hopes to be attributing a third consecutive Cork win to the momentum mined from their victories over the past two weekends. 

Right now, though, his view is that three games in 15 days at the business end of Sam Maguire speaks to a championship that is too compressed.