All-Ireland penalties: 'It’s bad enough I get blamed for costing Kerry the five-in-a-row, they add the one in ‘86 to it!'

Charlie Redmond and Mikey Sheehy both missed penalties in a final. They don't want shootouts to decide this year's.

Dublin goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton saves a penalty from Kerry's Paul Geaney during last year's All-Ireland final. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

The moments are seared in Charlie Redmond’s memory. Both times Tommy Sugrue awarded the penalties, both times Dessie Farrell won them. In the 1992 All-Ireland final, Redmond’s spot kick flew high and beyond Donegal goalkeeper Gary Walsh’s left-hand post. Two years later and at the other end in front of Hill 16, Down’s Niall Collins guessed wrong to his right but had the dexterity to stop the kick aimed towards the centre of the goal.

Penalties are rarely saved, so often missed, and for Redmond that latter denial was more brutal than the miss against Donegal, coming with less than 10 minutes remaining and Dublin suffering a second final defeat in three years.