Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney has suggested that gaelic football would be better if there were no rules.

The 2002 All-Ireland winning captain was clearly perturbed by some of the decisions in Sunday's McKenna Cup defeat to neighbours Tyrone at the Athletic Grounds, claiming that referees are awarding frees for fouls that don't actually exist in the rulebook:

"That is still going to haunt the GAA. We have black cards, yellow cards, orange and pink ones. We will look at the symptoms the whole time and try and get them every week," he states in The Belfast Telegraph.

"Until someone looks at the actual cause of it - which is our tackling - then nothing is going to change.

"Referees are going to have a hard job. They are always going on what they believe and they are trying to be objective about it. But I thought rules were there to be implemented. They tell us if the rules were to be implemented, there would be a free every ten seconds.

"So why have rules? Why not go out and if you like a physical game, then let's have it.

"For years there, Tyrone perfected getting in around the ball and putting in loads of tackles. And now it's a free kick. There is no such free for having loads of men around even though there's no such rule when men are tackling the ball with an open hand. It's a legitimate tackle.

"If you surround a man now with three or four players, it's a free. Even though it doesn't exist."

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