Kieran McGeeney hits out at Pat Spillane

Kieran McGeeney has intimated Pat Spillane tries to influence referees in his role as an RTÉ pundit.

Confirming Jamie Clarke will not be available to him this year, the Armagh manager did not name Kerry legend Spillane by name but referenced his infamous “puke football” jibe at Tyrone in 2003.

Spillane had been heavily critical of McGeeney’s tactics in Armagh’s Ulster quarter-final defeat to Donegal last summer when he described his formation as being “clueless” and tantamount to “damage limitation”.