"I would have loved to be around for those games"
July 06, 2016
Harry Redknapp, Kieran McGeeney, Robbie Fowler and Luke Fitzgerald at the launch of Eir sports.
©INPHO/Morgan Treacy.
The 'ex-footballers' who pontificate on the current well-being of gaelic football weren't as good as they like to remember, according to Kieran McGeeney.
Following Armagh's Ulster SFC exit to Cavan, 'Geezer' came in for stinging criticism from Joe Brolly on 'The Sunday Game' but, without naming names, he gave his take on the current standard of gaelic football punditry.
"I find it more with the ex-footballers," the Orchard boss said to The Irish Independent at the Setanta sports' rebrand as Eir sports.
"I would have loved to be around for those games, I must have missed them because when they were playing it must have been fantastic football.
"The way they talk it was all kick-passing and they were brave and courageous and the decision-making was spot on and they never made any mistakes. I must have missed that those games that those boys played in.
"I find it interesting to hear fellas talking about some of the games they played in and then saying, 'Oh no forward scored from play there' they seem to forget that we played against them and they weren't just as hot as they remember they were. And our scores weren't that high.
"Sometimes it mightn't do any harm if some of our panellists and ex footballers who are in the press now maybe just take out the video recorder, shove it in and to take a look at themselves. We weren't as good as we remember."
