Should we pine for the mayhem and madness of Dublin and Meath's Royal rumbles?

Paul Keane crunches the numbers on how football has changed since the glory days of the Meath-Dublin rivalry

BATTLE ROYALE: Meath’s David Beggy breaks past the Dublin defence during the 1991 Leinster SFC preliminary round second replay at Croke Park. Picture: Sportsfile

TG4, as Sean Boylan puts it, has made liars out of us all.

Content for years with sepia-tinted memories of how proper football used to be played, we got a rude awakening when TG4 started broadcasting re-runs of all those old classics.