The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Yeah that's the game they all play. The good teams anyway.

I remember them fairly well.

I was a 10 year old on my first and only week long holiday with my family in Fossa Caravan park in Killarney in August in 1982. During the week my father brought myself and my brother to see a Kerry training session.

I remember waiting outside the dressing room with my brother and each of us with a notebook to try and get a few autographs of the Kerry players when they came out. I remember Micko on his way in saw us waiting and said something to my father, heard the accent, asked where we were from: Wexford (father), Kilkenny (sons). I remember Micko, the absolute gentleman, saying not to bother waiting outside, come on inside and get the autographs while the lads were changing. I remember my older brother turning around and saying "you can't come in here mammy". I remember walking into Fitzgerald Stadium changing room and seeing all the great Kerry team in the same small concrete room as me. Even a 10 year old from Kilkenny recognised most of them, Charlie Nelligan, Jacko, the Spillanes, Ogie, Ger Power and of course the Bomber. I remember Mikey Sheehy was bollock naked when he signed his autograph for me. I remember Micko chatting away with my father about Wexford hurling while we were getting the autographs. I remember that the greatest team that ever played the game, in the week before an All Ireland semi-final, made 3 hurling culchies feel welcome and special. Lifelong Kerry supporter after that. Did I mention that Micko was an absolute f**ng gent?

I'm well aware of your bias thanks. I can read your posts.

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Dublin showed thuggery today but people claiming Ulser teams have more exciting I think is not balanced. I guess Dublin is like Kilkenny hurling all there success has made everyone else dismiss them as foulers

You know what I meant 😏

God I really hope Mayo do it now. From someone "stupid" enough to follow Limerick through the bad days I hope you end the heartbreak

The “i told you so”’ brigade should get their own thread.

Well done Mayo. Hopefully they can finish it the next day

Dublin showed no class in defeat imo.

KK in the hurling were different, again just my opinion.

As a Meath man I cannot tell you how much it means to see Dublin beaten. It was a beautiful justice to see them finally beaten by, if anyone, Mayo, given how many times they came out on the wrong side of tight games due to marginal refereeing decisions, cynical play on the part of Dublin and a lot of bad luck.

Seeing the retired Mayo players such as Andy Moran and Donal Vaughan in the stand, previous underperformers such as Conroy and Hennelley doing the business, the bizarre nature of the game, the usual suspects like McMahon and McCarthy largely responsible for losing the game for Dublin at the clutch moments, had a pathos to it.

It was bound to be a emotional occasion for any team to beat them, but the amount of joy and tears after the game was of the sort that would worry me. It often happens across a range of sports that teams cannot get to the same emotional pitch for the next game, and I suspect that this Kerry team are so good that they would do number on Dublins best team from the last 5 years.

I hope this isn't the case, but Kerry will go looking for them and could damage them badly in the first half of the final.

And already the narrative begins on kerry beating mayo bla bla bla

I can assure you kerry would have wanted to play dublin, mayo will be tough to beat and have experience of beating kerry in a final back in 2019.

I certainly wouldn't be ruling out mayo, there is also the possibility of kerry going six weeks without a game.

They showed no class in the match but showed class after the game. They were cynical and horrible but show me a winning team that weren't???? What was worse was the incompetent ref. Some of the cynical stuff was obvious, not underhand.

Tyrone want to play when they're competitive. They've said an extra week will allow them to do so. Up to HQ if this is to be the case. I suspect they'll get what they want, obviously pushing the final out another week.