Hilarious video mourns the end of 'The Nash'

The GAA powers that be moved this week to clamp down on ‘Anthony Nash’ style penalties, and judging by this video the internet is mourning the end of an era.

Fri, 13 Jun, 2014 - 13:29

The GAA powers that be moved this week to clamp down on ‘Anthony Nash’ style penalties, and judging by this video the internet is mourning the end of an era.

MC Banner has posted a song dedicated to the end of the Cork goalkeeper’s spectacular penalties and 20 metre frees entitled ‘Don’t Do The Nash’.

A take on the Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s 1962 hit “The Monster Mash“, it features lyrics such as:

“It’s over now, we thought it might,

No longer will we see that awesome sight,

Watching Nash start to run after a big rise,

And running seven metres before he strikes“.

“In Thurles, in Croker and Páirc Uí Chaoimh,

Nash was hitting balls like you can’t believe

Like a speeding bullet,

what an awesome power,

And goalies only worried about their private parts”.

Following Stephen O’Keeffe’s charge down of Nash during last Sunday’s Munster Hurling Championship replay against Waterford - and the subsequent debate on The Sunday Game - the GAA Management Committee implemented a new interpretation to the penalty rule of the game.

According to the interpretation, from this weekend on:

“A player taking a penalty or a 20m free puck, may bring the ball back up to seven metres from the 20m line for the purposes of making a traditional run at the ball, but shall strike the ball on or outside the 20m line but not inside it.”

They also clarified when the ball is deemed to be in play for the purposes of defence;

“The players defending a penalty or free puck awarded on the centre point of the 20m line shall stand on their goal-line and may not move towards the 20m line until the ball has been actually struck.

‘Lifting’ the ball with the hurley does not constitute ‘striking the ball’.”