Time to recognise Dublin as the true champions they are

We really should start off today with a homage to Dublin but that can come later. Whatever it is about the GAA mindset, we have a fixation with the macabre, with where it all went wrong.

We can all point to the obvious and say that decisions made by Mayo management in relation to their goalkeeper cost them a first title in six and a half decades, but the reality of a one- point defeat is that, say, Mayo’s first wide of the game after 30 seconds or their first of the second-half after 50 minutes were just as costly in a one point game. These things happen.

Filleting players for having a go should only happen in dressing rooms and on training grounds.