Time to cut O'Shea some slack

It’s rare you can identify precisely when a game of football turns against you. It’s usually a series of small incidents that culminate in a shift in momentum you just can’t reel back in.

It must feel like that for Aidan O’Shea and Mayo football for the past couple of weeks. A wave of negative momentum has just washed over them like the tide.

When Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes sat down to give an interview back in December of last year to give their account of the unceremonious ousting they received from their joint manager gig with Mayo, they came with loaded guns.