Dublin will need to call in the cavalry to ride Kerry storm

It was natural that of all the previous All-Ireland finals that last Sunday’s conjured comparisons with, 1982 was the easiest from the archive to reach for, but for long periods, it felt an awful lot like 2011 to us.

Just as was the case eight years ago, a fearless young contender initially put it up to a wily, seasoned, and great team — for that’s what Gooch and Tomás et al were, probably the greatest the old game has known, behind only Micko’s and Gavin’s teams of all-talents — before the champion side then wrestled control and for a good stretch of the second half, appeared to be cruising.