Mayo must break free of shackles

The temptation is always to look for the deeper meaning, of course. The extra layer.

Take yesterday, and Mayo versus Derry in the league semi-final. The psychodrama was interesting: you know, seeing Derry fight on bravely when they’d lost Fergal Doherty on 22 minutes to a straight red, but a team with Mayo’s experience wasn’t going to let a game like yesterday’s get away from them. Not when a league final and another outing in Croke Park was at stake.

Well, that was going to be our tack until the facts got in the way.