Finding the X factor in Gaelic football

“Into the face of the young man... there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that a hurling fan is about to talk Gaelic football.”

No, PG Wodehouse never wrote that version of one of his greatest sentences. We thought it, though, in light of the comments of the new GAA President, Liam O’Neill, to the effect that Gaelic football could be boring.

Before being accused of feasting on football’s travails like some kind of hurling snob (why break the habit of a lifetime? — ed) it might be no harm to see what O’Neill said in its entirety.