Tony Leen: For another autumn autopsy, Kerry should not ignore the elephant in the room

McGeeney knew it, and if he didn’t, Kieran Donaghy was alongside the reassure him. Hang onto these boys for an hour and take our chances down the stretch. Kerry tend to tighten up

DESPAIR: Kerry's Sean O'Shea at the full-time whistle in Croke Park. Pic: Leah Scholes, Inpho.

THE AFTERMATH dripped with stats and factoids, few of which are admissible in the ongoing oddity of Kerry’s too frequent inability to close out tight games.

Going back to the same Armagh opposition in 2002 (not mentioning what happened 20 years before that…), Kerry folk have gobbled up a lot of winters wondering how did they let another one slip away. One of them (2008, Tyrone, Tommy McGuigan) even had a similarly decisive, if jammy, goal for the opposition, trickling into the Canal End goal.