Letters to the Editor: Kick in right direction for Gaelic football
Kerry’s Gavin White battles against Jamie Brennan, of Donegal, in the All-Ireland final in Croke Park. Picture: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
The Kerry victory against Donegal arrived in the nick of time to save Gaelic football from extinction. What a relief to see a return to high fielding, long-distance kicking, and a plethora of scores on a regular basis.
The data-driven obsession, borrowed from soccer and American football, with its clichès about zonal defence, dominating the middle third, edge of the D, outside and inside the arc, and so on had made this relatively simple and spontaneous game the world’s most boring, and unwatchable, except for scoreless soccer games.
