Discipline, defensive dominance and The Blue Wave: Five things we learned

A forgetable final they’ll remember in Dublin.

Discipline, defensive dominance and The Blue Wave: Five things we learned

The weather is the greatest leveller of all 

So hands up. Who truly expected that a full-blooded championship encounter between Dublin and Kerry — apparently the last bastions of free-flowing, open and entertaining football — would finish without a goal and with just 21 points scored?

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