The large band of ex-Kerry footballers working as pundits in the national media is unhelpful to the Kingdom, Eamonn Fitzmaurice maintains.

The Kerry manager was reacting to a claim made by Liam Kearns that both Michael Quirke and Darragh O Se had been disrespectful to his Tipperary team in their newspaper columns ahead of Sunday week's Munster SFC final.

"First of all, what goes on outide the camp is outside our control. That is noise to us," Fitzmaurice stressed in the Irish Daily Star.

"I think at times, people think when the lads are writing their articles that what they are saying is what we are saying and it is two very different things.

"There is probably a perception out there that because of that presence in the media, that we control the conversation and that it is favourable towards Kerry. I actually think the opposite.

"With the lads, if they are not giving insight into the way we do things or we think about things, they are giving motivation to the opposition so I don't think it helps us at all."

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