Whenever the manager has led Kerry to the All-Ireland, they avoided defeat to Dublin in the preceding league fixture
. Between league and championship, the counties have played 14 times before this weekend. O’Connor has faced four different Dublin managers; Tommy Lyons, Paul Caffrey, Pat Gilroy and Dessie Farrell.Even the league fixtures have been notable. In O’Connor’s first campaign in 2004, Dublin was the third match, in Parnell Park. Kerry’s 1-12 to 0-12 victory was their first win in the capital since the 1985 All-Ireland – and the first there in the league since 1978.
Malachy Clerkin: Most of the new football rules work well enough without allowing goalkeepers the run of the placeIn 2010 at Fitzgerald Stadium, Dublin’s first win in Kerry in 28 years also unveiled the prototype team that would dominate the decade. In August 2008, he was speculatively associated with the Dublin job after Caffrey stepped down. Greatly amused – and in no hurry to dispel the rumour – he was quickly reappointed for his second tour of duty in Kerry in succession to Pat O’Shea.
That second term was when the Dublin challenge became serious. In the 2011 All-Ireland final, they beat Kerry in a first championship win in the fixture since 1977, covering nine meetings. For context, in their decade of plenty, from 2011 to 2022, Dublin went unbeaten in just six successive championship matches against their old rivals.
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