Pat Spillane claims Gaelic football is becoming unwatchable.

The man who famously coined the phrase ‘ puke football’ after Tyrone’s defeat of Kerry in the 2003 All-Ireland SFC semi-final was far from impressed by the football served up in the recent All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals between Monaghan and Armagh, and Derry and Cork.

“I fear we have seen signs of Gaelic’s football version of the apocalypse this summer,” he wrote in his Sunday World column.

“What happened in the Roscommon v Dublin match was the first warning. Remember that period in the first half when Roscommon kept possession for six minutes?

“Penalties aside, the Monaghan v Armagh quarter-final was a hard watch for the armchair fan. In a severe case of paralysis by analysis, the two teams set up as mirror images of each other.

“I finally reached breaking point early in the Derry v Cork match. I consider myself a mild-mannered individual. But after the first three minutes, I wanted to drive my boot through the television screen.

“What I was seeing was not the game I fell in love with and played. This was a new sport called ‘keep ball’,” the Kerry legend added.

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