Cork star Nicholas Murphy has said not even a win in Sunday's Munster SFC final will ease the pain of last year's crushing All-Ireland final defeat to Kerry. The All-Star midfielder, who has been surprisingly named at wing forward for the Pairc Ui Chaoimh showdown, said: "Nothing will erase what happened. If we learn something from the game it is more valuable. "Any time you play Kerry you want to beat them. So I think the motivation is playing Kerry no matter about last year. There were a lot of mistakes made all around the field (in the All-Ireland final). For some fellas, it was their first All-Ireland final and it is a big occasion. "But next Sunday won't reflect much on it because when Kerry play Cork there is always a good atmosphere there and players are always looking forward to it." The Carrigaline clubman cannot put his finger on why the Rebels have performed so poorly against Kerry in Croke Park in recent years after putting it up to them, and sometimes beating them, in the provincial decider. "It's hard to know. It's not that we go out to play badly. It's unfortunate that it has happened that way up in Dublin on each occasion that we have played poorly against them. "When we have played them down here, we have been there or thereabouts. We beat them a couple of years ago. "I don't think going into a game things like that would be on your mind too much." Tweet

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