Mayo’s sparkle appears to be gone, says McHale

Parallels, uncanny and unavoidable.

This weekend Galway will travel to Elvery’s MacHale Park bidding to end the provincial reign of a Mayo side still picking up the pieces following two consecutive All-Ireland final defeats. The Tribesmen have been a peripheral resident at football’s top table these past years but the injection of new blood has once more raised expectation out west.

1998, a similar tale.