Maybe one day we’ll look back and recall fondly those amazing 17 minutes.
The moments when the football world lived in hope. 17 minutes that threatened to show that maybe, just maybe, Dublin could be rattled.
Tyrone were 0-5 to 0-1 up, winning kickouts, playing champagne ball through the formidable All-Ireland champions and then Dublin showed up.
They turned it on. They stepped up. And, within minutes, they had hit Tyrone for a goal and three points as the raised the temperature on Jones’ Road and cut off Tyrone’s oxygen.
They were helped by the decision of Conor Lane to award a penalty that would put them back in front but, as much as the rest of the country wanted to believe that it wasn’t a penalty, it was.
Paul Mannion, the same man who dispatched of the spot kick in the first half, came right into the Tyrone den and, as he went to pull the trigger, Tiernan McCann collides straight into his body, front on, and takes him out so he can’t connect off the left.
Paul Mannion is fouled and blasts the penalty to the net himself to give Dublin the lead – Highlights on The Sunday Game tonight, 9.30pm @RTE2 #DUBvTYR #GAA pic.twitter.com/b4eRGNaPHx
— The Sunday Game (@TheSundayGame) September 2, 2018
