London’s dose of the Blues

ALL-IRELAND SFC RD4 QUALIFIER:

For the previous hour or two his London team, the first to represent the capital of Great Britain in championship football at GAA headquarters, had also looked comfortable in the environment and for a time their outlandish summer odyssey was going to be taken to ridiculous levels.

They turned around level having played against the fresh breeze and with both sides bunching around the middle and little pattern to the play, notions of London making the All-Ireland quarter-finals began to emerge.