1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Dublin
Gort GAA colours.png Dublin colours.PNG
2–12
(18)		2–8
(14)
Date22 September 1985
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Referee Paddy Kavanagh (Meath) [1]
Attendance69,389
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The 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 98th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland SFC final again until 2011.

Pre-match

On the morning of the game, Kerry manager Mick O'Dwyer and his players featured in an advertisement for Bendix washing machines, with the line "Only Bendix could whitewash this lot". [2]

Match

Summary

Kerry led by nine points at half-time, and two Joe McNally goals in the second half was not enough to stop them. [3]

Jack O'Shea picked the ball up with wonderful skill in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh, who proceeded to marvel at the Kerryman's abilities. [1]

It was the fourth of five All-Ireland SFC titles won by Kerry in the 1980s. [4]

Details

Final
Kerry 2–12 – 2–8 Dublin
J O'Shea 1–3, T O'Dowd 1–1, M Sheehy 0–3, T Doyle 0–1, J Kennedy 0–1, P Spillane 0–2 D Moran 0–1J McNally 2–0, B Rock 0–3, T Conroy 0–2, J Kearns 0–2, T Carr 0–1
Croke Park, Dublin
Attendance: 69,289
Referee: P Kavanagh (Meath)

Kerry =

Sub used
17 J. Kennedy for G. Power
Subs not used
16 J. Higgins
18 G. O'Sullivan
19 J. Mulvihill
20 S. Liston
21 D. Hanafin
22 D. O'Donoghue
23 J. Keane
24 L. Kearns
Manager
M. O'Dwyer

Dublin =

Subs used
20 T. Carr for C. Redmond
17 P. J. Buckley for B. Mullins
Manager
K. Heffernan

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References

  1. 1 2 Potts, Seán. "Blue Wave begins". Decades of the Dubs: 2010–2014. The Herald. p. 3. ...Jack O'Shea picking the ball clean off the ground in front of the ref (Kavanagh, Meath) in the 1985 final).
  2. ↑ "Dean caught between a Rock and a hard place over training sessions". RTÉ. 23 July 2020.
  3. ↑ High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
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