Does Clifford need to be Kerry captain to be a Kingdom leader?

The Bishop Moynihan Cup hadn’t been ferried down the hallway to the East Kerry quarter underneath the stand at Austin Stack Park before chat over the Kerry captaincy for 2020 struck up.

For the majority of Kerry GAA followers, even something as fundamental as the county final is merely a segue to more importance matters of state and a 38th All-Ireland. There were 8,256 paying patrons at yesterday’s decider in Tralee, won convincingly by East Kerry, but one thousand, and probably more, were there because David Clifford was playing.