Colin Sheridan: Two weeks of high hopes lie ahead, followed by inevitable Mayo heartbreak

Mayo. Seriously, thanks lads. As if the year hadn’t been going bad enough; Brexit, Covid-19, Maradona’s passing, the dirt on Emily Blunt’s face in the Wild Mountain Thyme trailer, and now, this; back in an All-Ireland final

CENTRE OF ATTENTION: Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea looks to burst past Conal Kennedy, Colin O’Riordan, and Kevin Fahey of Tipperary at Croke Park. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

The late great Peter Alliss died on Saturday. Perhaps fitting, as maybe only he could find poetry in the back-to-back demolitions at Croke Park over the weekend. 

Closing my eyes (as I did for much of the football), I could hear him come whispering to my mind...”and here come Mayo...like angry gorillas in the mist...t’was Kerouac, the old fool, who might have said when the fog is over and the stars come out at night, it will at once be a beautiful sight. Jack was not from Clonmel, I fancy...”