Football rule changes will take the game backwards not forward

You can’t say that the GAA isn’t on trend, writes Brendan O’Brien

Donald Trump has given us ‘Make America Great Again’. In Britain, those pushing the lunacy that is Brexit lean more and more on the legend of a proud and stubborn island nation standing up, and putting it up, to Johnny Foreigner for time immemorial. Both are twisted fallacies built on sepia-tinted versions of distorted histories.

The plans to shake up Gaelic football announced this week fall neatly into that category.