Mayo 4-12 Cork 2-14

By Peter O’ Dwyer

There’s only one thing more likely than the progress of a side with a navvy’s appetite for work to the All-Ireland final to change the shape of football. And that’s a second team with similar attributes.

ALL WEEK we heard “this is a different Mayo team”. Indeed, many conversations even stretched to how Mayo would cope with another clash with Kerry after being mangled by them in the 2004 and 2006 All-Ireland finals.