Dublin-Kerry: Undoubtedly the most-anticipated fixture of 2022

Dublin-Kerry only disappoints when they don’t meet. Anytime they both turn up for real, there is only one show in town, on earth, you want to watch, writes Kieran Shannon

BLOCKBUSTER: Kerry wunderkind David Clifford looks to wriggle free of Jonny Cooper of Dublin in the memorable drawn All-Ireland 2019 final at Croke Park. Pic: David Fitzgerald, Sportsfile

Although Mayo folk might disagree at this stage, it would seem it’s more of an anti-climax to lose an All-Ireland semi-final than a final.

Reaching the last game of the year is an achievement in itself, its lead-up a sort of honeymoon where the eventual loser is profiled and lauded in as flattering terms as his eventual conqueror. You’re either some man to have got your team this far or some man to have got them back to this point. Either immortality or redemption, possibly even both, beckons.