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Goalfilled drama and the vivid clash of maroon and green-and-red are usually reserved for balmy summer afternoons, not dreary Sunday afternoons in January. Yet football supporters at Pearse Stadium were treated to a classic as Mayo edged Galway in a pulsating Allianz Football League Division One opener, a contest not decided until the final frantic moments.

While the quarter-finals will take top billing this weekend, off-Broadway there is still plenty of games of consequence being played out across the county in the senior and intermediate championship relegation play-offs.

Dublin 2-17

The rotten Monday morning feeling after a championship defeat was fully administered this week after a seismic loss to Dublin on a score line of 2-17 to 0-11.

When it comes to GAA football matters, Mayo are the gift that just keep on giving. The Mayo for Sam band wagon rolls on again and the helter skelter roller coaster ride we find ourselves on is not ready to grind to a halt just yet after the green and red dug out an impressive one point victory against the old enemy Galway in Salthill last weekend.

It's do or die from now on in for Mayo. That was always going to be the case no matter what happened last weekend against Cork, but from being six points up and looking like they had two feet in the All Ireland quarter-finals proper after topping their group - they ended up in losing by three points and finishing in third place and now have to hit the road this Sunday, rather than having a week's break.

Little did I think that in trying to explain the scoring permutations in last week's column, they would have such relevance for the fate of six teams last weekend. There were frantic finishes to three games in three different venues that had serious consequences for the teams involved.

Little did I think that in trying to explain the scoring permutations in last week's column, they would have such relevance for the fate of six teams last weekend. There were frantic finishes to three games in three different venues that had serious consequences for the teams involved.

In the immediate aftermath of Mayo's comprehensive triumph over Donegal, Kevin McStay was as shocked as the rest of us to find out that the win was Mayo's first ever competitive victory on Donegal's own patch.