Paul Galvin made his Kerry championship debut in 2003 to kick-start a hugely successful inter-county career - which is still very much active after his recent comeback.

But the 35-year-old used his Instagram account to reminisice about an anecdote from his first trial with the Kingdom under Paidi O'Se, involving a pair of uncooperative old football boots ...

 

The classic World Cups. I remember I wore them on my 1st trial for KY under Paidi during the hot summer of 02. I was 20. I landed into the dressing room & cleared Maurice Fitz off the massage table cos two glutes were like cap nuts from the night before. Says I to the female physio "I'm flat out siring young ones around town therefore my two glutes are tighter than the nuts on a hubcap, will you stick an elbow in em an loosen em out like a good woman til out go out an kick points all round me." I remember Fitzy staring at me as he stood on one leg next to the table. Says I with a wink "tight glutes, can't shoot Fitzy bah." Though he looked terribly pissed off about something I could tell he enjoyed that line. I moseyed out loose as a goose in my WCs anyway & spent 10 minutes practicing chip ups on the run in front of Paidi until we were about to start the warm up when as I was flying full-pelt into my last chip up my studs caught the turf &sent me into a runfall before capsizing on head over tits. It was the perfect start in a way as Paidi got to see something of my determination in that little cameo. It's was a good 10metres before I eventually succumbed to the inevitable fall though in my mind it was far from inevitable. With each step I fought bravely to regain equilibrium until eventually I did the smart thing & ploughed into Fitzy as he was walking out. That arrested my fall of course. Pure cute. With that I let out a string of f*cks & lassoed the World Cups up into the stand as I went back into the dressing room for my Copas just so Paidi was clear that it was the boots that caused my fall and no lack of skill. I got the graze on my knee patched up before returning halfway thru the session. Luckily enough i kicked 1 point from 7 attempts on goal on the night before pulling up with what I think was dehydration. I got my post-session rub down anyway & waited in the car park for Paidi so i could order another pair of Copas to replace the World Cups i lassoed over the stand. Somehow I didn't make the panel in 02. There's a lesson for us all in that. The World Cups are classics but they'd make a fool of you in summer. Be careful out there lads. #chipups

A photo posted by Paul Galvin (@pgal10) on Apr 28, 2015 at 7:21am PDT