'They've been great': Referee David Gough's U-turn on new Gaelic football rules

Referee David Gough during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship semi-final match between Armagh and Kerry. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Having previously been extremely vocal in his criticism of the scale of new rules being introduced and how they were communicated to referees, David Gough has performed something of a U-turn by declaring that football’s new rules “have been great for us”.

Gough was speaking during a panel discussion at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, where it was announced that SuperValu had extended by five years its sponsorship of the All-Ireland SFC.