Tony Leen: Back from a bad place, a resurgent Michéal Burns puts a bounce in Dr Crokes' step
'I had been involved with Kerry for eight or nine years and all of a sudden that was pulled from underneath me. I was in a bad place, to be honest. No real direction'
RELEASE: Dr Crokes' Micheál Burns celebrates after winning a late free for his side in the Kerry Club SFC final at Austin Stacks Park in Tralee. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
MICHÉAL Burns didn’t eventually get out of Kerry until a May 31 flight to Chicago, but his head was hurting well before that. There are few reliable points of reference for the impact walking away from ‘the greatest football county in Ireland’ can have, but by the time the 27 year old headed for a Stateside summer, he was, in his own words, ‘in a bad place.
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