If there’s one general takeaway from the four senior All-Ireland finals we have witnessed over the past month it is that hell hath no fury like a former champion spurned.
All four 2025 champions had been to the mountaintop before. Indeed had Kerry held on against the greatest football team of all-time (or at least the joint greatest, to give Micko’s team of All Talents their fair dues) and thwarted Dublin’s historic five in a row, each of this year’s winners would also have been the champions of 2019.
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