1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

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1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
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Event 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Meath Cork
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0–12
(12)		1–9
(12)
Date18 September 1988
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match Larry Tompkins
Referee Tommy Sugrue (Kerry) [1]
Attendance65,000
← 1987
1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final replay
Meath Cork
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0–130–12
Date9 October 1988
Venue Croke Park, Dublin
Man of the Match Martin O'Connell [2]
Referee Tommy Sugrue (Kerry)
Attendance64,069
1989 →

The 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was the 101st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

Contents

Match 1

Summary

Cork scored a goal three minutes in and Brian Stafford scored a controversial equaliser[ contradictory ] [3]

David Beggy brought the sides level to force a replay. [4]

Details

18 September 1988Final Meath 0–12 – 1–9 Cork Croke Park, Dublin
B Stafford 0–8, C O'Rourke 0–4.L Tompkins 0–8, T McCarthy 1–0, M McCarthy 0–1.Attendance: 65,898
Referee: Tommy Sugrue (Kerry)

Match 2

Summary

Meath's Gerry McEntee was sent off in the seventh minute of the replay. [5] He was guilty of striking Niall Cahalane. [5]

The match was dominated by Meath's aggressive play. [6]

According to Colm Keys, the replay was "one of the most brutal finals" due to Meath's style of play. [6]

Meath won the replay by a point. [3] Colm O'Rourke scored Meath's last point — which proved to be the winning score, when Cork began to close in on Meath towards the end. [2]

In 2018, Martin Breheny listed the replay as the tenth greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. [5]

Details

9 October 1988Final replay Meath 0–13 – 0–12 Cork Croke Park, Dublin
B Stafford 0–7, C O'Rourke 0–3, B Flynn 0–1, D Beggy 0–1, J Cassells 0–1.L Tompkins 0–8, B Coffey 0–2, D Allen 0–1, D Barry 0–1.Attendance: 64,069
Referee: Tommy Sugrue (Kerry)

Meath (is this the replay or the drawn game?) =

Sub used
19 M. McCabe
Subs not used
16 S. Smyth
17 P. Lyons
18 F. Murtagh
20 F. Foley
21 K. Foley
Manager
S. Boylan

Cork (is this the replay or the drawn game?) =

Subs used
20 C. O'Neill for M. McCarthy
21 J. O'Driscoll for P. McGrath
Subs not used
16 M. Maguire
17 D. Walsh
18 M. Burns
19 D. Culloty
22 J. Cleary
23 J. Kerrigan
24 M. Slocum
Manager
B. Morgan

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References

  1. ↑ Ó Sé, Tomás (14 September 2019). "Reshuffle to swing it for Dublin". Sunday Independent . Retrieved 14 September 2019. He [Dr Con Murphy] reminded me that far worse than anything this year [2019] was when they got a Kerryman — Tommy Sugrue — to ref the 1988 All-Ireland final between Cork and Meath.
  2. 1 2 Fogarty, John (12 September 2019). "Replay readings suggest this will be tight, with a busy referee". Irish Examiner . Retrieved 12 September 2019. In 1996, Colm Coyle and Liam McHale was ushered to the line following a mass brawl while in '88 Gerry McEntee was sent off early... Brendan O'Reilly lofted over the winner in 1996 and eight years previous it was a Colm O'Rourke point that gave Meath the cushion before Cork's late fight-back... Michael Fitzsimons (2016), Seamus Moynihan (2000) and Martin O'Connell (1988). Tommy Dowd was given the 1996 award but the honour has become the preserve of the defender.
  3. 1 2 High Ball magazine, issue #6, 1998.
  4. ↑ Keys, Colm (13 September 2019). "Scoring the equaliser proves great leveller". Irish Independent . Independent News & Media . Retrieved 13 September 2019. Does it present any advantage in an All-Ireland final replay to have scored the equaliser in the drawn game? A look back on the last six drawn football finals shows honours even in that regard... Twice, Meath came from behind to equalise (David Beggy 1988), Colm Coyle (1996) to win replays against Cork and Mayo.
  5. 1 2 3 Breheny, Martin. "Martin Breheny's Greatest All-Ireland Finals". Irish Independent . 1 September 2018, p. 14.
  6. 1 2 Keys, Colm (14 September 2019). "History against Kerry as favourites usually deliver in replay". Sunday Independent . Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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