When Jack O'Connor took over as Kerry football manager in 2004, he was a relative unknown. Three All-Ireland finals and two Sam Maguire trophies later, he stepped down, having established himself as one of the greats. In Three Septembers he gives a vivid, frank account of those three seasons in the most high-pressure job in Irish sport. He explains how he brought Kerry back to the pinnacle, and he paints an intimate picture of the politics and personalities of the Kerry set-up.
A comprehensive collection of stories, statistics and little known facts from the worlds of hurling, camogie, men's and ladies' football and GAA handball.
For the first time, Tom Humphries tells the full story of Dublin and Kerry, on and off the field, over the decade that followed -- a decade defined by a rivalry that lifted the sport to heights of drama and popularity that it had never ...