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Éamonn Fitzmaurice: For either Galway or Mayo, summer's over around 5pm on Sunday

Things have just got serious in the Football Championship.
Éamonn Fitzmaurice: For either Galway or Mayo, summer's over around 5pm on Sunday

STORM''S BREWING: Mayo fans take shelter from the rain. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Until last weekend, as we meandered through the football championship, many people were not really invested in it. Now, suddenly, a jolt of electricity has surged through the entire country as knockout football enters the equation. 

Finally, the public’s imagination has been captured and nowhere is this more significant than in Galway on Sunday. There is never much between the sides when Galway and Mayo meet. With the exception of the 2021 Connacht final in Croke Park, games going as far back as 2016 were always won by a margin of between one and three points.

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