Munster SFC: Constructing a Killarney case for Cork's footballers

'Some day it will click', mused John Cleary as Cork continued to create, and spurn, goal chances in the spring. It will take a lot to go right against Kerry on Saturday but it should offer a firm indictor where the Cleary project is at

MATT FINISH: Cork's Matty Taylor will look to augment Cork's attack at Fitzgerald Stadium.

The béal bocht usually blows from the other direction but it was John Cleary who dabbled in it last week. Describing Kerry as “on their day the best in Ireland”, he may as well have been reading from his opponents’ playbook.

Or does Cleary actually mean it? After all, it’s coming on 30 years since Cork landed a win against the hosts in Fitzgerald Stadium. Thirteen times Cork have faced them there since and five draws (2002, ’06, ’09, ’10 and ‘15) were the closest they have come to ending the fruitless forays.