Kerry’s talisman shouldered the weight of expectation to deliver a second All-Ireland SFC title
Kerry’s star man David Clifford. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
2.34 pm: Bedlam outside Croke Park. Serenity within. Kerry’s players are wandering the pitch in twos and threes. David Clifford is joking with his brother Paudie and Paul Geaney over near the Cusack Stand.
You’d hardly know they were about to play an All-Ireland final. This, apparently, is Clifford’s default mode. But the weight of the day hangs heavily in the air.