Moyna: Spillane not foot-perfect

PAT SPILLANE’S assertion over the weekend that gaelic football is not as entertaining as it was has been flatly contradicted by a leading academic in the field.

Exercise physiologist Professor Niall Moyna of Dublin City University, who has worked with the Dublin senior footballers and his university’s Sigerson Cup team, disagreed with Spillane’s assertion, made at the Munster Council Club Day, that gaelic football was not as entertaining and overly reliant on hand-passing, to the detriment of the foot-pass.

“You only have to look at TV footage of games in the seventies and eighties and compare that with games now – it’s like looking at games in slow motion.