Enda McEvoy's TV View: Kerry odyssey survives game of inches

The RTÉ and BBC panels examined the controversial incidents exhaustively.

Seán O'Brien of Kerry celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final match between Dublin and Kerry at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Neat item of drollery in the Guardian over the weekend at the top of an article about the forthcoming film version of The Odyssey. “Warning: contains 2,600-year-old spoilers.” 

The piece you’re about to read contains a spoiler and we’ll get it out of the way now. Kerry’s scoring efficiency rate, as brought to us at the final whistle by the stats goblins from BBC Northern Ireland, was 71 per cent compared to Dublin’s 49 per cent.