Football action must speak louder than pundits’ words

A family friend, who spent about 40 years in America, was a regular visitor at Lincoln Financial Park, home of the Philadelphia Eagles.

By his own admission, Sean would freely state that he often enjoyed the ‘tailgate parties’ much more than the game itself. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this popular American pastime, a tailgate party involves eating food and drinking a few beers from the back of a car.

In the GAA it’s called boot eating, but the tea is replaced with beer, and ham sandwiches are replaced with the contents of a small supermarket, all neatly packed into a couple of humongous cool boxes.