Colleges, not League, the place to trial football’s rules

Turlough O’Brien may have been a tad hyperbolic when he claimed the proposed rule changes to football are reflective of a 1940s mindset yearning for the days when players donned flat caps, but certainly the suggested place for such experimentation smacks of a mentality that’s anachronistic.

The late JJ Barrett – journalist, player, coach, poet – was giving an insight into more than the Kerry psyche but the wider footballing public when he once penned in The Squeeze the verse:

The National League