Football: Time for new direction

Sport is, first and foremost, all about fair play, in principle if not always in practice.

This is something I believe everyone can agree on. It follows, therefore, that competitions should also be based on the principles of fairness and equity.

In most sports, including club GAA, great efforts are made to have equality in all competitions. We have senior, premier intermediate, intermediate, premier junior, junior and novice club competitions, all of which are designed to give every club a sporting chance of winning.