{"id":677579,"date":"2026-09-07T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677579\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:05:09","slug":"jbm-david-clifford-way-up-and-beyond-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677579\/","title":{"rendered":"JBM: David Clifford ‘way up and beyond’ the best ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cork superstar Jimmy Barry Murphy is well acquainted with greatness and well placed to anoint David Clifford’s as Gaelic football’s GOAT.<\/p>\n

The latest batch of superlatives for Kerry’s poster boy arrived following his\u00a016-point haul<\/a> that nudged Fossa into next Sunday’s Kerry intermediate final – putting the small club on the cusp of senior football for the first time.<\/p>\n

Fossa trailed Beaufort by nine points five minutes into the second half of Sunday’s semi-final but the Cliffords kicked into top gear to power Fossa home after extra-time, Paudie Clifford adding five to his brother’s tally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reviewing David’s efforts for new Irish Examiner show\u00a0The Replay<\/a> with Se\u00e1nie McGrath, Barry Murphy, who won a football All-Ireland as well as five hurling titles, says Clifford has ended all debate about football’s greatest.<\/p>\n

“I certainly wasn’t anywhere near that league, I can assure you,” he told McGrath.<\/p>\n

“We were talking over the last few months, pub talk, with my friends about the greatest players we’ve ever seen. I was lucky enough to play in an era when I saw some of the greatest Kerry players of all time, I thought. But there’s no doubt that this man is certainly way up and beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Left foot, right foot, power, strength. He’s just got everything. This man is up there on his own. No question, he’s the best I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

“And it’s great to see a player like that showing up for his club and showing that commitment and what it means to him.<\/p>\n

“And in fairness, in the All-Ireland final when Kerry were beaten by Mayo, the two outstanding Kerry players were Paudie and David Clifford.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork superstar Jimmy Barry Murphy is well acquainted with greatness and well placed to anoint David Clifford’s as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[10417,10416,18,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-677579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gaelic-football","tag-kerry-gaa","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117232266381021399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}