Abusive letters sent to amateur players, telling them to commit suicide. James Horan sent letters to the Guards. Anthony Daly phoned up a Clare fan over one letter and threatened to drive round his house and presumably kick the shit of him. Fair fucks to him I say.
you should get him to send them back to you once he is done reading them so you can re use the letters for the next one. Maybe a self addressed envelope, but make him pay for the stamp.
Heard Tomas O’Se talking about this on the radio this. What kind of sick fuck does this? Can’t understand this. Whatever about at the game some folks get hot under the collar but a couple of pints and most are fine but who the fuck sits down and writes a letter? Thats a whole other level of crazy
well that is the message that has gone out there and those in power in the county should be in more control of this
has this thing been over egged from a Kerry point of view ?
turns out limerick, galway, mayo and whatever counties Anthony Daly is referring to, could be clare could be Dublin are no better. The postmen of the country appear to be busy distributing hate mail
I attended Croke Park, Clones and Fitzgerald Stadium for the super 8 games and didn’t hear one word of vitrol directed at Eamonn and his management team, I was on the pitch in Killarney last Saturday night where Kerry fans mingled with players and members of the Kerry management team after the match on the pitch and indeed the Kildare players and management, didn’t witness any animal like scenes. some Kerry players were signing autographs up to a hour after the final whistle. The majority of Kerry players were socialising down the town with fans Saturday night in killarney.This is not consistent with a view that the Kerry fans are somehow animalistic towards the team or management. Jez it didn’t end as well for Mickey Whelan and Tommy Lyons in Dublin.
There is obviously a few looneys and full on types sending letters in a lot of counties but a categorisation of Kerry supporters is out there now that is not consistent with what I witnessed at the recent games. perhaps a bit more focus on this majority would be helpful. it was a bad bad year for supporters of the Kerry senior football team in terms of results, on the round they were decent towards the players and management.
Totally neutral / uninformed viewpoint here. Fitzmaurice played on all of above, almost invented the hate mail story, to deflect from his own shortcomings. Which probably weren’t too numerous anyway. He won an AI after all, but maybe hadn’t the vision / smarts to develop their new crop. Who mightn’t be as good as we’re led to believe anyway?