Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Mayo will bring that animal hunger to Croke Park

It looks to me that a further lesson for Horan from last year’s game was the importance of a significant presence in the inside line

The Sam Maguire Cup is prepared in a workshop prior to the All-Ireland SFC final. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

“The test match animal is never prepared to be second. The test match animal knows what is required and he does it again and again and again, and he does it in such physical, determined and focused way that he is never going to be second.” 

- Ian McGeechan as Lions coach in 1997