I started thinking about this column as I was leaving Croke Park last Sunday. Would the football final go the same way as the hurling, with one team’s excellence and superiority crushing the opposition and with it the hopes of a thrilling climax to the season? After Mayo’s victory in the semi-final, Andy Moran polled the journalists in the press conference room to confirm that nobody gave his side a chance in the final, whether they were playing Kerry or Dublin. The fact that it is Kerry makes Mayo’s chances even slimmer.  Kerry live with year-long expectations. They are expected…

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