A good game would be nice, but ...

WITH the sterile nature of the 2009 football championship causing enough existential angst to keep the internet chat rooms whispering from here ‘til Christmas, the Sligo football team take their championship bow tomorrow.

And they know the game badly needs a shock result to prevent another bashing from the media carnival that in recent years always seems to follow the opening rounds of the championship as if half expecting a decent game of football.

While I and many more besides would love to see more football like that played between Cork and Kerry recently, the reality is that the early stages of the football championship were almost always thus and until such a time as Paraic Duffy and his cohorts sit down and genuinely consider the abolition of the provincial championships we will have to accept the uneven way that a GAA football season unfolds.