Mayo will lick their wounds, but watch ’em bounce back

IT MIGHT have been a damp squib at the climax in Croke Park but there are other joyous dimensions to the finale of the National Football League which should not be forgotten either.

Okay, Mayo fielded and folded in the big game in a manner which we have come to know only too well down the decades.

Yes the Cork side had little more than a training spin and the crowd did not get value for money in that one.