The All-Ireland championship has seeped into your being when you wake up on Tuesday morning, and there is a thought already floating around your brain: Kerry will beat Armagh. This is the time when everything seems possible: four games, eight likely winners and no match a nailed-on certainty. No wonder they penetrate your dreams. The idea that Kerry would win doesn’t arrive with a long list of obvious reasons, as you might expect. Having woken up with the hunch, I’ve spent the rest of the week trying to find them.  If you haven’t been paying attention, this might surprise you.…

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