Kerry v Armagh: What time, what channel and all you need to know about the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Kerry go head-to-head with All IrelandPic:Seb Daly/Sportsfile
Armagh take on Kerry for the second successive year with Kieran McGeeney’s side winning by two points after extra time in last years All-Ireland SFC semi-final. Kerry have won five of their six games in the championship so far with Armagh winning four out of their six games.
This will be the eighth championship meeting between the two sides with Kerry winning four, Armagh winning two and one draw in the previous seven clashes.
Kerry saw off Armagh in round six of this year’s Allianz football league 2-21 to 0-17. Kerry become the first team to reach every quarter-finals since their introduction in 2001 and the Kingdom are also attempting to reach the semi-finals for a fifth consecutive year with Armagh hoping to return for a second successive year.
Here is all you need to know.
The game will take place on Sunday June 29 in Croke Park with a 4pm throw-in.
The game will be shown live on RTÉ Two following the Meath and Galway quarter-final clash with coverage starting at 1.15pm.
There is the ever-entertaining Timmy Moynihan and Ambrose O'Donovan to tune into on Radio Kerry's live commentary.
Brendan Cawley will be the man in the middle for the game.
Our reporters will be building up to the final throughout the weekend and previewing the game ahead of Sunday’s throw-in.
Listen to The Gaelic Football Show podcast where Paul Rouse, Maurice Brosnan and James Horan discuss the championship to date.
PRIOR to Saturday’s game against Cavan, victory from which pointed Kerry the way of Croke Park and a heavyweight quarter-final, football’s curious ingested (with relish) the revelations from Eamonn Fitzmaurice on these pages of previous football crises in the Kingdom.
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And who, more than anyone else, navigated the group away from the rocks.
“The younger players worshipped him,” Fitzmaurice wrote of Declan O’Sullivan during Kerry’s 2014 campaign. “Declan challenged the group to the core. He said that if we didn’t rise our standards and play as we should be playing, he would cross the street to avoid meeting lads in the future. He outlined how he wouldn’t be able to look people in the eye if they didn’t do the bare minimum - giving it absolutely 100% with a Kerry jersey on their backs, and to never ever give up.”
: And then there were eight. Before the All-Ireland quarter finals is generally a good time to draw breath and rank the contenders. Usually, undeniable patterns have started to emerge, and a pecking order will have been established. That is not to say it always plays out that way but we have some sense of where we are going. Read full article here
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