Kerry master Galway in stylish game

Kerry 2-17

Galway 1-12

By Malachy Clerkin

After the passion, the poetry. Okay, so Sligo and Armagh got the blood running in the first game of Sunday’s double-bill, but it was still poor football. This, though, was different. Within the first minute we had seen a point apiece from the Kerry corner forwards Colm Cooper and Mike Frank Russell, each a dreamy contrast to the stolid horseabout fare served up earlier in the day. And from there, it just got better.

Michael Donnellan’s goal, Sean O’Sullivan’s goal, any one of the eight points contributed by Russell and Cooper, everything Darragh e S