Kerry Must Pull It All Together ; If They Fail, It Will Remove Any Claim to Greatness [Eire Region]
Mail on Sunday › September 20, 2009
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THE GENERAL view is that Cork will win today. The reason is that they are now equipped to put Kerry under sustained pressure for 70 minutes. Each time that has happened this decade, Kerry have wilted. They have been, if you like, the Harlem Globetrotters of Gaelic football - mesmerising against opposition that has been content to play second fiddle, but unable to cope with serious competition.
Unprepared teams who stood back and admired them have been swept aside contemptuously. But in the four contests where they have been rigorously examined, they have been humiliated.See the full content of this document
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Kerry Must Pull It All Together ; If They Fail, It Will Remove Any Claim to Greatness [Eire Region]
In 2002, they were five points up against a modestly gifted Armagh at half-time. In the dressing room, Joe Kernan famously smashed his 1977 loser's medal against the wall and delivered a speech from the D'Unbelievables back catalogue. Galvanised, Armagh went out and set about exposing reputations.
Ripped out of their comfort zone, Kerry quickly wilted, Armagh speedily reeled them in and when the w...See the full content of this document
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