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Clifford and his colleagues could have a field day. I don't give Cork a prayer against Kerry.

— Pat Spillane

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Headline of Spillane's preview of the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship meeting between the counties. Cork won and knocked Kerry out of the Sam Maguire Cup, in a year when no qualifiers for the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship took place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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There are people who go to the Hague for war crimes – I tell you this, some of the coaches nowadays should be up for crimes against Gaelic football.

Meath, like last year, won't be beaten by 16 points.

If I went to America and I went in to a big room and there was a thousand super models inside in that room, naked, all trying to seduce me, and if there was a pint of beer at the end of the room, I would go for the pint of beer. That's trust.

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