Dick Clerkin: ‘Death of football’ comment wide of the mark

Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin says recently-appointed playing rules committee chairman Jarlath Burns was wrong to describe Saturday’s Dublin-Derry game as “the death of Gaelic football”.

Armagh’s 1999 Ulster SFC winning captain made the staggering comment on Twitter following the game. Clerkin responded to Burns, challenging the wisdom of using the social platform to make such a claim but received no reply.

“From my point of view, I just felt on something like Twitter or social media outlets where people are prone to off-the-cuff, not particularly well thought-out views it wouldn’t be a standard forum for official people or bodies to make those comments.