Jack Anderson: The need for Gaelic football to be more Camelot than Kissinger

Here's half a dozen starting points for Jim Gavin and his committee. It is a sad indictment of Gaelic football that contemporary coaching innovation seems to surround what can be done with the most defensive player on the pitch

Jarly Óg Burns of Armagh tries to evade Ciarán Moore of Donegal. Pic: John Sheridan/Sportsfile

There is a scene in the 1995 Oliver Stone movie where Nixon looks up at a portrait of JFK and says “when they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are.” 

The quote could apply to the recent Football League finals: the gloriously chaotic Division 1 final between Dublin and Derry as JFK; the largely turgid Division 2 final being Nixon.