Maurice Brosnan: eight observations from the football championship

Armagh's Rian O'Neill celebrates scoring a goal

Dr Hyde Park produced the wonderful and the weird last Saturday as Mayo held off a late Roscommon rally to secure their second victory of Group 2 in the All-Ireland Sam Maguire series.

Overall, it was an engrossing contest that kept the 8,597-crowd invested right until the final whistle. A bit of border-infused bite, penalties, three goals, more penalty pleas, one red card; plenty of the boxes for a good game were ticked.