2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
Event | 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship | ||||||
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Date | 19 September 2010 | ||||||
Venue | 2011 → |
The 2010 All-Ireland Football Final was the 123rd event of its kind.[6] The last football match of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, it was played between Cork and Down on 19 September 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin.
Cork were victorious, achieving their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title since 1990.
This was the last occasion on which iconic broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh commentated on a final to a global audience, having announced his retirement days earlier after a six-decade career.[4]
The game was watched by the highest television audience for an All-Ireland Football Final in five years.[13]
History
This was the first meeting between the sides in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.[14] The one previous All-Ireland Senior Football Championship match between the two sides was a semi-final in 1994 which Down won.[14] They had not met in the National Football League for more than a decade.[15]
2010 was Cork's fifth appearance in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final since 1993,
Down had less experience approaching the match, having not featured in a final of any description since the 2003
The game "truly divided" families who took opposing sides.[17][18][19]
Prior to the senior final, Tyrone defeated Cork in the minor final by one point.[20][21][22]
Pre-match
Kit
On Monday 30 August 2010, the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee announced that both teams would play in their away kits due to both home kits being red. This meant that Cork would play in a predominantly white kit with a red trim, while Down would play in a predominantly yellow kit with a red and black trim.
Tickets
Tickets were reported to be selling for €400 on eBay during the weekend of the final.[18] Planes, trains and buses from Cork were said to have been fully booked, with Iarnród Éireann commissioning five additional trains to Dublin due to "phenomenal demand".[18]
Retirement of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
Legendary commentator
Rocky the Chicken
Rocky the Chicken, who achieved national recognition for successfully predicting 2010 All-Ireland Championship results, opted for Cork as the winner of 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final ahead of the event.[29]
Convoy protests
The Croke Park Streets Committee (CPSC) intended to protest what they perceived to be the Gaelic Athletic Association's ignorance of the wishes of local residents by staging a vehicular demonstration outside Croke Park on All-Ireland Final day. They cancelled ahead of the event however, after Cork fans objected to possible disruption, instead protesting at the stadium the day before.[30][31]
Team selection
Down named the same team that defeated Kildare in the semi-final.[32][33] Cork named Eoin Cadogan and Graham Canty to start in the final, with Canty serving as team captain.[34][35][36] Cadogan had not started the semi-final but came on in Canty's place when Canty wounded his knee.[34] John Miskella was not to play instead.[34] On final day itself Canty was ruled out of the starting team.[7] Miskella started in his place.[37]
Match
Summary
First half
Ciarán Sheehan of Cork's goal-bound effort was saved by Brendan McVeigh, Down's goalkeeper, in the first minute.[7] Down were leading by 0–7 to 0-2 after 27 minutes.[7] Cork's two points in this period included a free taken by Daniel Goulding.[7] In the 32nd minute Goulding was also the player to score Cork's first point from open play. Cork's Donncha O'Connor also contributed to reducing the gap between the sides as half-time approached.[7] At half-time Cork were behind by three points, having scored 0–5 to Down's 0–8.[7]
Second half
In the second half Cork were the dominant team.
For Cork Daniel Goulding scored a total of nine points and Donncha O'Connor scored a total of five points.[7] Cork won by a scoreline of 0–16 to 0–15.[39][40] Goulding was declared "Man of the Match" by The Sunday Game panel.[1]
Broadcast
The game was broadcast on television via The Sunday Game on RTÉ2 as well as worldwide on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and on RTÉ.ie.[41] It was also broadcast by the BBC on radio, television and online.[42][43]
Details
Cork | 0-16 - 0-15 | Down |
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D Goulding 0-9 D O'Connor 0-5 P Kerrigan 0-1 C Sheehan 0-1 |
Report | D Hughes 0-3 P McComiskey 0-3 M Clarke 0-3 K McKernan 0-1 P Fitzpatrick 0-1 M Poland 0-1 B Coulter 0-1 J Clarke 0-1 R Murtagh 0-1 |
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Man of the Match:
Linesmen:
Sideline Official
Umpires
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Post-match
Reaction
Lord Mayor of Cork Mick O'Connell described it as "an incredible match ... so tense ... Everyone was delirious when they won".[44]
Cork manager
Down manager James McCartan Jnr paid tribute to Cork "Because I do feel Cork were deserving winners on the day. We've no qualms about that at all".[49] He also expressed pride in his own players.[50] Down forward Danny Hughes said: "Well, none of us want to be one-hit wonders. There are a lot of young lads that came in this year, and there is a great development squad coming through. But we know these days don't happen every year, making All-Ireland finals. Hopefully this will make them hungrier, going forward into next year".[49]
Homecoming
Tens of thousands of people were expected to line Cork city centre for a street party to coincide with the arrival of the winning team on 20 September 2010. The event was scheduled to be broadcast live to a global audience on the website of the Cork-based Irish Examiner national newspaper at 18:45.[44]
Awards
The nominations for the 2010
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After all, Cork will be going into today's All-Ireland as odds-on favourites to win their first football title in 20 years and only their seventh of all-time. They are also in with a chance of becoming just the sixth team in 20 years to do the league and championship double.
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The arrival of Nicholas Murphy and Graham Canty in particular galvanised their team's comeback for different reasons.
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- "Thank goodness we were all born under Mícheál's Wand'rin' Star" Review of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's final commentary by Mary Hannigan in The Irish Times, 20 September 2010
- Timelines
- Croke Park timeline The Irish Times, 20 September 2010
- As it Happened – Cork 0-16 Down 0-15 RTÉ Sport, 19 September 2010
- All Ireland SFC final: Cork 0-16 Down 0-15 as it happened JOE.ie, 19 September 2010
External links
- Official team websites: Cork Down
- Official GAA website
- "From 2010 All-Ireland final showdown to 2020 Division 3 league battle", Feb 2020