Lion-hearted Mayo show their strength and weakness in Roscommon

Mayo manager Kevin McStay is interviewed at Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon. Pic: Ben McShane/Sportsfile
Don’t try to understand it. Feel it. Mayo’s capacity to excite and confound was on full display in Dr Hyde Park. There’ll be plenty of positives in their post-match review and they’ll struggle to make sense of how it came so close to slipping away in the end.
Somehow, a contest that they looked comfortable was suddenly struck with a sense of gnawing peril. Seconds before the clock ticked to 70 minutes, Mayo led by six points. Then Sam Callinan conceded a penalty and Conor Cox converted it.