Aidan O'Rourke fears he could be the next manager to receive The Sunday Game treatment.

The long-running programme has taken its criticism of managers to a new level this year with pundits Joe Brolly and Eamonn O'Hara earning lots of column inches for lashing out at Paul Grimley (Armagh) and Kevin Walsh (Sligo) in recent weeks.

Speaking to the Irish Daily Star ahead of Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Wexford, the Louth manager said: "Listen, we all know the consequences. Who knows who the next man getting lambasted on The Sunday Game is going to be?

"The people on The Sunday Game are trying to carve out careers for themselves. And what appears to be rewarded in terms of, I won't say analysis, currently is how controversial can you be and how many people can you get to phone in and tweet in and complain.

"That seems to be the yardstick by which you are measured, or the yardstick by which you are judged on coming back next week.

"If there was any sort of competition for The Sunday Game out there, there might be a different approach to how they promote our games and analyse them.

"Because realistically the games aren't analysed. It's just a platform for people to outdo each other." Tweet

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