Mayo and Dubs help football reclaim its soul

The Kingdom, the power of Dublin and Mayo.

To whom the glory? Anyone like Tyrone?

The football championship may not have delivered the pimple-faced freshness of this year’s hurling, but it has blown off the froth to present a heavyweight card for the semi-finals. And in the approach of favourites Mayo and Dublin, football has reclaimed some of the ground lost in the last two seasons to a depressing re-evaluation of tactics.