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It’s incredible how fast the landscape in team sport can change. One minute, you’re unquestionably the best team around, delivering success after success and seemingly destined to remain at the summit for years to come. The next, you’re looking over your shoulder as hungry challengers begin to close the gap and eventually pass you out.

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.

GAA: All Ireland SFC Quarter Final

Mayo picked up their first win over Dublin in the league in a decade and first in the capital in since the 1970s with a comprehensive victory over their old foes on Saturday night.

It all started for Seamus O'Shea in the green and red in a senior jersey on a wintry Sunday afternoon in Ballinrobe in January 2008 - the eldest of the O'Shea brothers got his first game time for Mayo as a senior as sub against NUIG in the FBD League that day.

This is where it starts to get interesting - not that the Connacht championship wasn’t interesting already, with plenty of twists and turns for a number of reasons.

All roads lead to Croke park on Saturday for what will be a feast of football for Mayo fans, when both the women and men take on All-Ireland champions Dublin in their respective All-Ireland semi finals.

Galway footballers must now prepare for a relegation play-off against Monaghan in two weeks' time in this year's Allianz Football League.

Mayo went looking to create their own Fairytale of Croke Park the week before Christmas, but unlike those children’s fables there was no happy ending.

The number on the back of a shirt means relatively little these days in the game, with match-ups between different individuals taking players all over the park.