Let’s take the facts over footballing fake news

This is always the worst part of every inter-county football season — the lull between the league and start of the provincial championships.

Like sitting in a restaurant after finishing the appetiser and waiting impatiently for the main dish to arrive, while an overly apologetic waitress makes excuses for the inordinate delay between courses each time she passes by the table.

‘It’s the chef’ she says… ‘Don’t you know, he’s always been this way’.