In 12 devastating minutes, Dublin punch Mayo’s lights out

For those who prefer their dreams sprinkled with fairy dust, maybe these metropolitan marauders will start looking at themselves fondly between now and September 1. Maybe with history in the crosshairs, Jim Gavin’s Dublin will contort themselves into a ball of apprehension and tank on the biggest day of their sporting lives. Maybe they will, but nothing that’s available to us by way of hard evidence all the way back to 2015 suggests that is the case. Wishful thinking, more like.

There will be quite a few theories advanced in relation to the opening six minutes of the second half at Croke Park on Saturday. For sure it changed the All-Ireland semi-final irrevocably.