If I’m honest about it, I’m not hearing the noise. The provincial football championships are racing through at breakneck speed and there is something not quite right about it. There’s ducking and diving and dodging going on against a lot of other sports – the Champions League, Heineken Cup, the endgame to the English Premier League – that it is all so hectic just now and they’re getting lost in the midst of it all.
It is like bumper cars; and I think the GAA are losing!
Why do I say that? The provincial football championships are competing with so many sporting goings-on everywhere that they are aren’t cutting it in terms of box office. Apart from Ulster, which remains competitive, and to an extent Connacht, they are just not attractive enough to go up against those other sports and it again makes you wonder about the decision to change the scheduling so that it is all over by the end of July and …
- May 11, 2022
