John Evans: The Mayo-Roscommon rivalry is vicious

Former Roscommon manager John Evans admits he found the county’s rivalry with Mayo “vicious” during his time there, but was astounded by the booing of Andy Moran last Sunday.

Kevin McStay, his management team and players have since distanced themselves from that behaviour and called on supporters to show respect at this Monday’s All-Ireland quarter-final replay.

“I was amazed by the whole lot of it,” said Evans. “I had never seen it, certainly never in the several times we played Mayo in the Hyde (Park) or Castlebar and a few of those were tight games. It’s a new phenomenon. At first, I thought it was tongue-in-cheek but obviously there is something there. The management were straight up about it, to be fair to them.