Tyrone must be less desperate to win

In February of last year, Kerry were chasing a late equalising point against Dublin in their opening Division 1 game in Croke Park when Aidan O’Mahony fell to the ground in the hope of persuading David Coldrick to award him a free.

What O’Mahony was selling, Coldrick wasn’t buying and he was yellow carded for his troubles.

It was a remarkable moment, because not since Pat McEnaney has there been a match official prepared to penalise simulation. Yet, because it was a league game that Kerry lost and the defender was punished for his audacity, it was never going to make the same headlines as his feigning act which saw Donncha O’Connor sent off in the drawn 2008 All-Ireland semi-final. Like Michael Shields’ dive in this year’s drawn Munster final wasn’t big news, not just because Cork didn’t win but nobody lost out as a result of it (apart from Shields and his pride).