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Published 09:40 5 Apr 2017 BST
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Fitzmaurice was particularly aggrieved with the suggestion of former Dublin star Paul Curran that Kerry 'should be ashamed of themselves' for what he judged to be an over-aggressive nature during that drawn game. He reasoned that any team that is successful over a long period needs some steel to their game before adding:
"Going back to the 2011 All-Ireland final, Declan O'Sullivan was taken out of it. Going back to the 2013 final [against Mayo] when they were down a man for the last five minutes [Rory O'Carroll was concussed and Eoghan O'Gara carrying an injury] and they basically had to tactically foul to see it out. "Going back to the end of the All-Ireland semi-final last year when one our players was wrestled to the ground and basically choked.
"So they have a hard edge but so have we. I have never tried to paint us whiter than white."
"My worry was that it was developing into a situation like the All-Ireland final replay last year where there was an orchestrated campaign against Lee Keegan that was effective for the replay."In effective, Fitzmaurice is surely referring to the fact that Keegan was shown a black card late in the first half of the replay, which Mayo ended up losing. Fair, if somewhat forceful, comments from the Kerry boss and ones that add some spice to this weekend's final.
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