Tony Leen: Surely there’s a pit-of-the-stomach anxiety about Munster football now

The staleness of Munster football shines an uncomplimentary light on football structures generally.

28 May 2022; David Moran with his son Eli and Paul Geaney with his son Paidi play on the pitch after the Munster GAA Football Senior Championship Final match between Kerry and Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

Notwithstanding the aggravation of big GAA weekends deflated by foul mismatches, at this stage there must be real pit-of-the-stomach anxiety about the future of the football blue riband in Munster.

There will invariably be loud table-thumpers who roar change instinctively but only a traffic bollard is oblivious to the rank bad staleness of Munster football and to the uncomplimentary light it shines on football structures generally.