Football’s brand leaders may be down but they remain the game’s traditional benchmark
In other words, the records that substantiate the county’s standing as football’s brand leader were being surpassed and almost undermining the foundations of achievement.
“I felt myself that everything Kerry football stood for was on the line. Everything we’d achieved in the last four or five years, and everything we’d achieved in the last 100 years, was riding on that 70 minutes of football. It was that fear of losing to Cork that was driving us.” “It looks like every time we come with a good team, Kerry’s in the road. We came in the 70s and Kerry was in our road. We came with a good team in the 80s and Kerry was in our road and we’ve come with a good team in the 2000s and Kerry’s in our road but the reality is that Kerry’s in everybody’s road.”
So, the trauma that beset Cork when this century’s supremacy carried Kilkenny to the top of hurling’s All-Ireland lists still looks comfortably distant for Kerry. On the way to seven of those 10 Ulster All-Irelands, Kerry were obstacles in the road needing to be surmounted. Still apprehensive – my memories of that year’s Ulster final include hearing two agitated locals that evening discuss the upcoming All-Ireland semi-final, again against Kerry, one cautioning the other that his retail business would suffer if he couldn’t muster more optimism about the county’s prospects.
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