Kingdom record on line

THE bold, defying run of Jim Gavin’s Dublin footballers in going 33 games in League and Championship without defeat has shone a light on a team pretty much forgotten by the GAA community. And next Saturday evening in Tralee, as Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s men look to stop the Dubs in their tracks, they will also be looking to uphold the status of the Kerry team of the 1930s as officially the greatest football team of all time.

That title had been in the hands of Mick O’Dwyer’s Kerry from the 1970s and 80s, until we learned so much more in the last week of an older team from the Kingdom who had preceded them and who, in addition to also winning four All-Irelands in a row, managed to go 34 games without a loss.