From wild card to trump card: How Liam Hassett is shaking up the Kerry dressing room

If Éamonn Fitzmaurice thought Kerry’s backroom team was getting too friendly, he knew there was one addition who wouldn’t be slow to throw in a scud or two in the dressing room. In Liam Hassett’s lexicon, ‘beaten’ doesn’t exist...

Kerry football confidence is innate. But to reach the preferred, measured level of quiet confidence that has settled on the camp this week, there’s a need for loud and the proud to counteract inevitable pockets of doubt in the dressing room.

Liam Hassett is the definition of such sure-footed conviction.