1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

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1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Final
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Event1985 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
Kerry Dublin
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2–12
(18)		 2–8
(14)
Date22 September 1985
VenueCroke Park, Dublin
RefereePaddy 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.

The final was contested by Dublin and Kerry. The teams would not meet in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 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 with his hands directly from the ground (a foul) in front of referee Paddy Kavanagh.[1]

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

Details[]

22 September 1985 Final Kerry 2-12 – 2-8 Dublin Croke Park, 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 0-1. J McNally 2-0, B Rock 0-3, T Conroy 0-2, J Kearns 0-2, T Carr 0-1. Attendance: 69,289
Referee: P Kavanagh (Meath)

References[]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ "Kerry on honour roll". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 14 September 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
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