Lee Keegan was surprised to hear Jack O’Connor highlight the impact of the crowd in Kerry’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final defeat to Armagh.

The Kingdom boss took a thinly-veiled swipe at stayaway Kerry fans when he claimed Armagh’s huge support in Croke Park last Saturday was a major factor in getting them across the line after the game went to extra-time.

“It was strange to hear Jack O'Connor dwelling so much on the impact of the crowd in his post-match comments,” the former Mayo star wrote in his weekly RTÉ column.

“It's not as if this is anything new with Kerry. It's part of their tradition and identity, almost, that they don't travel until the All-Ireland final.

“They'd surely have assumed beforehand, given the fanaticism of the Armagh support, that the breakdown would have been roughly as it was.

“I'm not saying the crowd isn't a help and there are times you can feed off that energy. And Armagh did seem to derive great momentum off that in the closing stages.”

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