Ambrose O'Donovan: My goal was to get on the Kerry team. Captaincy didn't come into it

“I think it was PO (Páidí Ó Sé), God rest his soul, who said, 'This is a nice year, Centenary year, a year of note for the GAA'. Let's have a cut off it."

Play It As It Lies.... Forty years after they captained their respective counties to All-Ireland senior titles in the GAA’s centenary year, Kerry and Cork greats Ambrose O’Donovan and John Fenton were pulling strokes once again on Lough Lough Leane. Picture: Don McMonagle

Ambrose O’Donovan is still prone to the goosebumps.

As a member of the Radio Kerry commentary team with Tim Moynihan, Croke Park’s Level 7 has become familiar to him but last year, one shy of this the 40th year anniversary of him lifting the Centenary Sam Maguire Cup, he took in a tour of the stadium.