How Dubs deliver in second half

A fourth consecutive All-Ireland title for Dublin on Sunday will also mean a 15th straight championship victory. A stretch that has run almost as long as that is their ability to win second halves, beating all their SFC opposition after the break since the beginning of last year’s championship.

A couple of those second periods have been tight affairs, like the games against Donegal and Tyrone this summer when the difference was a solitary point, but you have to go back to Mayo in the All-Ireland final replay of 2016 to find the last time a team enjoyed second-half parity with Jim Gavin’s side.