In Mayo, everything you know is wrong

The Mayo boss touched immortality more than once, and had he pulled it off it would have been one of the greatest stories ever told, writes Colin Sheridan.

The opening scene of Woody Allen’s 1971 spoof Bananas! sees legendary sportscasters Don Murphy and Howard Cosell hunkered outside the presidential palace of a fictitious South American banana republic, setting the scene as if pitch-side at the gridiron: “Good afternoon, Wide World of Sports reporting live from the little Republic of San Marcos, where we are going to bring you a live, on-the-spot assassination.