Mick O'Dwyer is tipping Dublin to become the first team to complete a five-in-a-row of All-Ireland SFC successes next year.

O'Dwyer was in charge of Kerry when they were famously denied the magical feat by Seamus Darby's late goal in the 1982 All-Ireland final.

“They’re good enough, they deserve to do it," the legendary manager said of the all-conquering Dubs in an interview with the Irish Examiner.

"I tell you what, the more I’m looking at the situation, they seem to be. I hope that Kerry can put a team together to tackle them. That’s most important from a Kerryman’s point of view.”

He continued: “If you think of it, we could have won nine All-Ireland titles in-a-row at that time. We were beaten in ’82 by Offaly by a point and in ’83, Cork beat us by a point. Had we won the two of them, we would have won nine All-Ireland titles in-a-row. That was on at the time.

“So Dublin have a bit of work to do yet, you know. It looks very much like they will do the five-in-a-row and maybe the six-in-a-row.

“The other counties will have to do a lot of work to catch up with Dublin. They are playing wonderful football. They can play the short game and the long game. They have it all and a wonderful panel of players.”

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