Defeat for Dublin would have put a spanner in their works – instead Mayo couldn’t hold on and every other county may live to regret it
Colm Basquel is tackled by Aidan O’Shea during Dublin’s draw against Mayo in Dr Hyde Park. Photo: Sportsfile
Sometimes a minute changes the course of a season. Sometimes it sums up what a team is all about. Sometimes they don’t even need a full minute.
72 minutes 18 seconds: Ryan O’Donoghue points a free to put Mayo one up with less than a minute left. It feels like a winner. Mayo fans are exultant. This famous victory will put a large spanner in Dublin’s works. They will finish second in the group, go into the preliminary quarter-finals, lose their top seeding and perhaps come up against Kerry having played three weeks in a row. No one saw this coming.
