Dessie Farrell: Football championship ‘lagging way behind’ hurling counterpart

Gaelic Players Association chief Dessie Farrell has offered a damning assessment of the football championship, claiming it’s ‘lagging way behind’ hurling because of the restrictive provincial structures.

The players representative tapped into the prevailing displeasure with the provincial model since last weekend’s lopsided results in Leinster and Munster, one of which was Dublin’s 27-point demolition of Longford.

Farrell claimed that while hurling is “in a really strong place at the minute”, the football championship set-up as it stands is a “huge restriction” to properly developing the game.