Micheál Aodh Martin: 'There's no point pretending; it is probably going back in time a small bit'

Micheál Aodh Martin believes with the new rule of not being allowed to pass the ball back to the keeper there is a space for short kick outs.

ROOM FOR SHORT KICKOUT: Micheál Aodh Martin feels the game has slowed down with the new rules of the 40m kickout. Pic: Tom Beary/Sportsfile

There were plenty vocal and plenty more critical on the debut weekend of football’s new clothes. Neither category properly fits Cork goalkeeper Micheál Aodh Martin. Rash or disapproving he wasn’t. Observational were his views.

Lining out in the Cork number one shirt for the first time since last March, Martin was always going to enjoy the view in front of him at Páirc Uí Chaoimh early on Saturday evening. That view was significantly “more condensed”, not less, on account of the new book football is now played by.