Kerry get lost in claustrophobic maze of man-traps

All through Tyrone showed a spark that Kerry rarely matched and they carried a bounce to their game that didn’t dim over the course of 100 minutes.

28 August 2021; Diarmuid O'Connor of Kerry in action against Tyrone players, from left, Mark Bradley, Ben McDonnell, Michael McKernan, and Darragh Canavan, during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final match between Kerry and Tyrone at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

Two semi-finals, two bouts of extra time, one winner each time.

Here endeth the similarities. A couple of weeks ago Dublin and Mayo fought out a ferocious, elemental battle in ferocious, elemental conditions: less a football game than Wuthering Heights, only enacted here with an O’Neill’s.