James Horan gets used to a different perspective

For the first time in five years, Mayo are preparing for a Connacht championship match without James Horan in charge.

Instead, when the holders turn up at Pearse Stadium seeking to inflict the same sort of punishment as they did in 2013 — they won by 17 points — Horan will have his pundit’s hat on.

It’s a significant change from life at the coalface with Mayo when for four years he sought, in vain, to mine a rare All-Ireland title.