All-Ireland final countdown: When Kerry became football’s brand leaders

The lines on the graph crossed for both counties in 1941; Kindom keen to end Dublin’s four-midable sequence

By this stage the tendency in the early years of the GAA to spread semi-finals around the country was dying and the 1941 replay in Tralee would be the last played outside Croke Park until 1983 when Dublin memorably went to Páirc Uí Chaoimh to take on Cork in an All-Ireland semi-final replay.

On the field, according to Pat’O in The Irish Times they were “outclassed” 2-9 to 0-3 and once Gega O’Connor scored a 20th-minute goal, it was “the beginning of the end”. “It wasn’t a scare, we knew it was going to be that way,” – Dublin manager Dessie Farrell goes all clairvoyant after Kildare ran his team to two points in the Leinster football semi-final – the closest-run thing the champions had experienced in the province for 12 years.This year’s final marks an unusual sequence stretching back nearly 20 years. It is the fourth time that the counties have met in championship at a four-year interval.

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