Mayo showed 'serious guts' in refusing to accept defeat against Dublin last Sunday, says Peter Canavan.

Writing on the Sky Sports website, the Red Hands legend took his hat off to Stephen Rochford and his players.

"There is no doubt about it, with all that happened on Sunday, Mayo's belief will have surged through the roof. They may not have lacked in belief anyway but they came back from the dead two or three times in this All-Ireland final. And they will gain a huge amount from that.

"Mayo got off to a good start but those own goals almost killed them. Have you ever seen the like of that? Two own goals in an All-Ireland final. They must really have started to believe that there was a jinx against them.

"But they came back and stabilised, they came from five down after the restart and they came from three down near the end of the game. That takes serious guts."

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