Tomás Ó Sé has confirmed that he is hanging up his football boots.

Writing in today's Irish Independent, the Kerry great revealed that Nemo Rangers' heavy defeat to Corofin in last weekend's All-Ireland Club SFC final is to be his last game.

It wasn't, of course, the way he would have wanted it to end…

"Shocked. The team didn't perform and I certainly didn't perform. That shocked me," he states.

"When something like that happened in the past, I couldn't wait to get back out on a football field to rinse the experience away. The mantra was always that you'd learn from your mistakes, take some kind of mysterious strength from the bad days when you just didn't show up.

"But that option isn't open to me now. The boots are put away.

"You know you can do everything perfectly in your preparation for a big game, but the truth is you never really know if you're ready. You'll think you're in the zone, but the one thing you can never control is the opposition. And Saturday's final could be condensed into a single sentence.

"We were sh*t; Corofin were sh*t hot."

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