GAA: Kerry and Mayo will don their alternate jerseys at the behest of the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee when they meet in the All-Ireland Senior football semi-final on Sunday week at Croke Park. The CCCC has decided that there would be a clash if the counties were to sport their traditional colours.
Kerry will wear a navy kit they used in the quarter-final win over Limerick while their opponents, the Connacht champions will take the field in a predominantly red shirt with green trim, which they wore previously against London.
Clashes between the counties have been dealt with inconsistently over the years. In the 1981 All-Ireland semi-final the Kingdom were in blue and Mayo in white. Five years later both were allowed to wear their normal strips but for the following year’s final Kerry wore jerseys with a wider hoop to aid differentiation.
In the 2004 All-Ireland final, Mayo changed to red, but neither county had introduced a new kit by the following year when they met in the quarter-final, so no change was ordered. Traditional colours were again used for the 2006 All-Ireland final, though larger quantities of gold on the new Kerry jersey helped to identify the teams.
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