Get out of my way, I’m coming through.
You might say Mayo have no forward line but, God almighty, Diarmuid O’Connor would walk onto any team in Ireland.
Two successive Young Footballer of the Year awards for the Mayo hotshot but now every inch of him looks a man. A beast of a man at that.
He kicked Mayo’s crucial goal towards the end of their first half with Sligo to open up a proper deficit for the first time in the game despite playing against a stiff breeze.
And he did it with pure power, pure ignorance, and pure and utter class.
He bursts through the challenge of two Sligo men, both of them bounce off him and he drop-kicks the ball into the net past the goalkeeper.
GOAL!
Diarmuid O'Connor fires @MayoGAA into a 1-06 to 0-05 half-time lead over @sligogaa in the Connacht Championship! #GAAclips pic.twitter.com/xV5xBYAgMH— eir Sport (@eirSport) May 21, 2017
Diarmuid O'Connor's goals for Mayo. pic.twitter.com/61sdYgmNWS
— RTÉ GAA (@RTEgaa) May 21, 2017
The rise for Mayo starts again.
Diarmuid O’Connor is leading them there like a fearless bull.
