After Kerry beat Galway in the All-Ireland football final in 2022, Pat Spillane stunned hundreds of thousands of Sunday Game viewers by announcing his retirement - and breaking down in tears. In this extract from his new memoir, In The Blood, the Kerry icon explains why: that 2022 game reminded him of the 1964 All-Ireland final between the same two counties, when his father Tom was a Kerry selector.
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