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Published 21:43 30 Jul 2023 BST
Updated 18:07 31 Jul 2023 BST
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Costello lasts only five more minutes before getting the curly finger.
The hi-jinx wasn't the reason he was taken off but, from Cluxton's perspective, the hi-jinx clearly wasn't conducive to winning this game. Unrelenting focus on the job at hand was always one of Dublin's hallmarks.
It goes back to Pat Gilroy's initial idea in 2011 of scraping Dublin of egos and billy big lads and showboating and, whether it would have made a difference or not, Cluxton has his way and Costello drops the act.
Kerry respond like a dream, stretching out again with the next three points but for them, that's as good as it got.
Speaking to us after the game, Jack O'Connor can't help but feel that in having to start from scratch to build their handy work up all over again, his team expended priceless energy.
With the benefit of hindsight, it's impossible to disagree with him.
Especially when the dreaded Dublin surge arrived in the closing quarter, with points from Mannion, Basquel, Fenton and Paddy Small igniting the team, and rising the hill.
To their credit, through chants of come on you boys in blue, Kerry responded but they were only responding now, they were no longer leading the charge.
And it soon became clear that, after all that, they didn't have a knock-out punch to swing.
David Clifford was their best hope but the wides were building from his perspective. And they were sucking the life out of the team. The last one was the real killer, because, having for once put real daylight between him and Fitzsimons, it would have levelled the whole thing up.
But it didn't curl in and seconds later, Dean Rock was curling over from a free.
Life goes on. Paudie Clifford had scolded his younger brother for some of the hopeful shots he took on in those closing minutes but at the final whistle, he was the first one over to him. He put his hand out, hugged him and patted him on the back.
That's sport. Life goes on...
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