Burns blasts poor standard of football

FORMER Armagh great Jarlath Burns has criticised the current standard of gaelic football and claimed that the game is suffering from ‘paralysis by analysis’.

The 2009 All-Ireland championship is only five weeks old yet Burns has bemoaned the lack of quality football and is pessimistic about the future of the game.

“It’s hard as a GAA neutral not to feel glum after last weekend’s action. The menu was mouthwatering with big derbies on offer and when your own county isn’t playing, you want to see good football,” he wrote in Gaelic Life magazine.