Frantic finishes around the country plunge an adrenaline syringe into the heart of the championship

Or here, have Aidan O’Shea standing over a free in the 76th minute for Mayo, with Cork having scored 1-6 unanswered down the stretch and leading by three points. The game was gone but had O’Shea scored the free, Mayo would have finished second and would be playing at home next weekend. Instead it dropped short and Cork finished second, not on head-to-head and not on scoring difference but on number of points scored.

Are we not entertained? It was frantic, it was chaotic, it was everything you could ask for from a GAA summer afternoon. Whether it was quite worth the 11 weeks of Lough Derg-style penance it took to reach this point is something that will detain the authorities in the off-season. But for one day at least, this worked.

If there was crying or complaining about the place after this, it was only from previously fancied sides who have suddenly sleepwalked into peril. Mayo are the prime example – rampant against Kerry in Killarney just a month ago, they completely froze down the stretch against a resurgent Cork side. “So we knew it was dangerous. But I would argue that we got into a great position around the third quarter when we got the six up. But we didn’t manage it and gave it away fairly quickly. I think that is the turning point.”

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