Former Kerry star Darragh O’Sé said he’s disappointed with their county players following the League Final hammering to Donegal.
However, he’s not angry with their performance, but that the men from the Kingdom hadn’t ‘dealt with’ Michael Murphy after he struck Dylan Casey in the opening 15 minutes. The Glenswilly man escaped with a yellow card, much to the disappointment of O’Sé and co.
“If I was in the Kerry dressing room, I’d have taken only one thing out of the final – and it’s nothing to do with the result,” he wrote in today’s Irish Times.
“If I was one of Casey’s teammates, I wouldn’t want to hear a word about David Gough or Conor Lane or disciplinary committees or anything like that. I’d be looking in the mirror. Murphy should have been dealt with there and then, on the pitch. Great fella, brilliant footballer, whatever. A box in the jaw is a box in the jaw and you can’t be a team who lets that slide. Murphy needed to be reminded of that and if it meant a Kerry player taking a card, so be it…. But nobody said boo to him, never mind gave him a clipping.”
However, Ó Sé went on to speak glowingly of Murphy, describing him as, still, one of the best and most influential players in the country.