Two‑time All‑Ireland–winning captain and former Dublin and Clare manager, Anthony Daly, is a much-respected pundit and columnist as well as ringmaster in chief on the hugely-popular Dalo’s Hurling Show.
By its very nature now, with the league so closely linked to the championship, especially for teams in Divisions 2 and 3, the football league has been compelling viewing for the last three years. That is, until a certain stage of the competition.
I remember a host of teams pulling up the handbrake last spring midway through the league as soon as they thought they were safe. Before they knew it though, no team was safe because they were nearly all consistently opening up the door for the teams around them, which turned the latter stages of the league into a game of snakes and ladders.
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