Tony Leen: Mayo's magical mayhem spreads like a contagion

Mayo fearlessly embraced the chaos against Kerry to complete of of the football championship's most remarkable transformations.

TASTY: Beating Kerry in the last game of the season is the seasoning that tastes that little bit different.

In the upper part of Croke Park’s Hogan Stand, two men sat there. Stillness. Faces covered, shoulders heaving. One could move, but couldn’t move; to move anything beyond his eyelids was to potentially interrupt, in that moment, the shift of football’s tectonic plates.

Seven floors down on the sideline Andy Moran checked if the stadium clock had stopped, like an old timepiece on the Titanic, logging when all the clocks stopped. When a seismic shift went from fantasy to fact and a fourth All-Ireland title.