Tuesday Tactics: Hurling the better for possession not being nine-tenths of law

Some of us are old enough to remember the seventies and eighties and long for the way the game of football was played back then.

The game was played at a frantic pace where retaining possession was not the overriding trend.

Fast forward to the present and that off the cuff style has been banished as possession football has become the foundation stone for every team.