Colin Sheridan: When winning tricks you into missing the flagrant truth

For Mayo, the ultimate question remains: do you stick with something that so often works, sometimes beautifully, even poetically, but ultimately fails?

Lee Gannon of Dublin is tackled by Jordan Flynn of Mayo during the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin. Picture: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

An hour or so after the last saturated stragglers left Jones’ Road on Saturday night, a pair of old foes entered the ring in Manchester to settle a score two decades in the making. 

Twenty years after they first fought each other as amateurs, Kell Brook and Amir Khan went toe-to-toe once more, and for the last time.