New York prove a point with show of defiance

To the untrained eye, the victors’ dressing-room was the one with ‘Home’ written above it. 

As Roscommon’s players skulked away from Gaelic Park feeling relief that could so easily have been ridicule, the hosts were popping bottle caps.

New York came within a breath of unceremoniously piercing their vaunted visitors’ balloon in the first game of the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.