Dublin must stop looking like a team trying to defend a title

All-Ireland SFC final match preview: If you’re led to believe some of the commentary this last week and a half, much of Mayo have been doing rain-dances on top of their traditional pre-final routines of spitting on horseshoes and rubbing rabbits’ feet.

We jest although we can’t rule out strong reports of them stealing into the back gardens of Dublin supporters last night and robbing their Child of Pragues statuettes.

So much was written about the first game, which delivered so little, it left a vast vacuum which, from a media perspective, was welcomingly filled by the ex-Dublin players coming to the aid of Diarmuid Connolly followed by their Mayo counterparts defending Lee Keegan.