Mayo keep their spot at the top table

Mayo 4-19 Roscommon 0-9: And then there were four. Not three, mind, but four.

Suggestions that Mayo had taken their leave of football’s top table had solidified into hardened fact after their unimpressive stalemate with Roscommon last Sunday week, so it was just like them to take a pick to the foundations of those opinions and turn them into rubble.

The Big Three rebranded as the Big Four, then, and all on the back of… we were going to say 70 minutes but this was a narrative reimagined inside half an hour.