Absence of head-to-head contests is a major negative in the modern game
Aerial contests such as this between Donegal’s Michael Langan and Louth’s Tommy Durnin are becoming increasingly rare in modern football
Tony Ward didn’t equivocate, describing Gaelic football as “an unmitigated mess”. He offered a similar assessment of soccer.
Bundling both together in a piece on these pages on Monday under the heading ‘rugby shows why it’s way ahead of Gaelic football and soccer when it comes to entertainment’, he bemoaned what he regards as a serious problem for the latter two.
