Michael Moynihan: Six-word sports horror stories

Gaelic football, hurling, rugby, and soccer are full of sentences could cause panic within seconds

Mon, 02 Nov, 2020 - 07:00

Blame Ernest Hemingway. Everybody does, though the evidence for doing so is pretty slim.

The story isn’t bad, though. Supposedly at some stage in 1920s Paris, a challenge was issued in a cafe to a few writers present: who could write the most complete story with the fewest words?

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