THEY starred each other down for seventy stultifying minutes and turned All-Ireland Sunday into a six-minute final.
Locked at 1-13 apiece with the clock red, the veracity of the perceived wisdom that Dublin had deadlier hardware down the stretch was about to be scrutinised. Kerry, in search of back-to-back titles, had spent much of the afternoon at Croke Park with their foot hovering over brake and accelerator, too often the former.
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