Spillane: Donegal criticism justified

PAT SPILLANE has defended his criticisms of Donegal’s style of football, claiming he was speaking for the vast majority of people who watched Sunday’s dour All-Ireland semi-final.

As Kevin Cassidy dismissed Tony Davis’ suggestion the Donegal players didn’t enjoy this season, the Kerry legend told The Irish Examiner he received no criticism for his comments from the Donegal people he met after the game. Spillane spoke of having seen an apocalypse for Gaelic football in the first-half of the game while referring to the standard as “shi’ite football”.

He also described Dublin’s win as “a victory for Dublin and a victory for Gaelic football” and remarked “Gaelic football as Donegal wanted to reduce it to would degenerate it into a shambles”.