GAA football 2020

Was hard to tell if he was right or left footed last night when watching clips of him, scored some crackers off both feet

Had never seen that interview before when they were asking Jim McGuinness about Cassidy possibly ever returning to the fold, after a match on TG4 which Cassidy was doing punditry work at and was literally standing two yards away! How awkward

I think there is a wing of fans that are buoyed by it, on both sides. Its a new rivalry. In the 1990s Dublin's peak coincided with a miss in the streaming of the AI Semi Finals, and a team that lost to Leitrim in 1994. On the other hand as Dublin declined after 1995, Mayo were on the rise. In the late 1990s Mayo were in the Top two or three in the Country. By 1997, it would have been a hard sell to suggest Dublin were top 10.

If anything, the 2006 game probably still has more to it than we think, as it was, in reality, for the chance to be beaten by a top Kerry team. I have no doubt in certain fans minds, an average Mayo team acting as "wind up merchants", and a psychologically suspect Dublin team responding created a little division whereby there is a view these were rivals, when in fact there was little recent history between the teams. Remarkably, if Dublin had kept their composure at that time, and played for more than 20 minutes, that was a winnable game. But I think some fans probably look historically at that.

And then there is the imputation of mentality from other sports like soccer, by newer fans who think this is the way to behave. I'm not going to pretend that Dubliners couldn't act the maggot before 2010, trust me, I say it. One particular follower sticks out in my mind, and I recall their constant presence at matches after the turn of the millennium. And at least that was just lip.  But its responding to what is a modern Dublin v Kerry, or Kerry v Tyrone rivalry.