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1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final

Field	Value
title	1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final
image	1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.jpg
image_size	250
event	[1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship](1988-all-ireland-senior-football-championship)
team1	Meath
team1association	[[File:Colours of Meath.svg	40px]]
team1score	0–12
(12)
team2	Cork
team2association	[[File:Colours of Cork.svg	40px]]
team2score	1–9
(12)
date	18 September 1988
stadium	Croke Park
city	Dublin
man_of_the_match1a	Larry Tompkins
referee	Tommy Sugrue (Kerry)
attendance	65,000
previous	[1987](1987-all-ireland-senior-football-championship-final)

(12) (12) 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.

Match 1

Summary

Cork scored a goal three minutes in and Brian Stafford scored a controversial equaliser

David Beggy brought the sides level to force a replay.

Details

Match 2

Summary

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

The match was dominated by Meath's aggressive play.

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

Meath won the replay by a point. 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.

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

Details

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

1 M. McQuillan
2 R. O'Malley
3 M. Lyons
4 T. Ferguson
5 C. Coyle
6 L. Harnan
7 M. O'Connell
8 L. Hayes
9 G. McEntee
10 D. Beggy
11 J. Cassells (c)
12 P. J. Gillic
13 C. O'Rourke
14 B. Stafford
15 B. Flynn

;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?)

1 J. Kerins
2 N. Cahalane
3 C. Corrigan
4 S. O'Brien
5 T. Davis
6 C. Counihan
7 T. Nation (c)
8 S. Fahy
9 T. McCarthy
10 P. McGrath
11 L. Tompkins
12 B. Coffey
13 D. Allen
14 D. Barry
15 M. McCarthy

;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

References

Ó Sé, Tomás. (14 September 2019). "Reshuffle to swing it for Dublin". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
Keys, Colm. (13 September 2019). "Scoring the equaliser proves great leveller". [[Independent News & Media]].
Keys, Colm. (14 September 2019). "History against Kerry as favourites usually deliver in replay". [[Sunday Independent (Ireland).
''High Ball'' magazine, issue #6, 1998.
Fogarty, John. (12 September 2019). "Replay readings suggest this will be tight, with a busy referee". [[Irish Examiner]].
[[Martin Breheny. Breheny, Martin]]. "Martin Breheny's Greatest All-Ireland Finals". ''[[Irish Independent]]''. 1 September 2018, p. 14.

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