Exiles demand rule is changed to exempt London

London’s footballers have called on the GAA to amend its new inter-county transfer rule.

Voted in by 80% of delegates at Congress last month, the rule states any player wishing to line out for another county must play in that county’s championship that year or in the previous season.

But for clubs deciding to bring forward the start of the London SFC from July to the end of this month, 12 London players would not have been eligible to face Leitrim in their June 3 Connacht opener.