David Walsh admits that training with Donegal is more "intense" than with Luton Town.

Walsh won a place on the English League club's Youth Training Scheme (TYS) after starring for Leicester City in a tournament in Holland, but was forced to return home after suffering a cruciate ligament injury.

"I was on the YTS for a year and a half," he is quoted as saying in The Irish Independent.

"I got a bad injury and came home. I never really took up soccer again after that. When I came home I played a bit of football for the club (Naomh Brid) and got called into the county team. I've been here ever since.

"I was very young to get the cruciate damaged like that. If it had gone a different way, I might not be sitting here chatting about catching a ball - I could be chatting about heading one."

He added: "There is a big, big difference in the intensity between the soccer training I was doing and Gaelic football training. All over, Gaelic football training is so intense and everyone has taken it up a level or two.

"With the soccer it was about getting through the 90-minute game, whereas the Gaelic football is all-out from the start.

"I don't regret it at all. I'm glad to be where I'm at now in chasing another Ulster medal. If we could bring another one of those back to Donegal, it would be absolutely amazing." Tweet

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