Football isn’t dead but it’s poorly

It was hard to know which prompted the greater sense of outrage last Saturday night: the way Dublin and especially Derry went about the joyless business of trying to get a result in Croker or Jarlath Burns declaring via Twitter that the game signalled ‘The death of Gaelic football’, writes Kieran Shannon.

Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin was probably the most prominent figure to pull Burns up. ‘Would have thought your new position commands a bit more restraint, pragmatism and perspective, Jarlath.’

The new position he was referring to was Burns’ appointment as chairman of the standing committee on playing rules by new GAA president Aogan O’Fearghail.