Hot on the heels of O'Sé's article in the Irish Times, where he made the earth shattering observation that opponents might have a go at getting under Diarmuid Connolly's skin, Roy Curtis pens the following article.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/roy-curtis-darragh-s-reveals-the-sleeveen-culture-of-modern-gaelic-football-31341616.html
As an exercise in po faced, holier than thou, hand wringing, his is about as bad as it gets.
You would swear that it never occured to any defender in the history of sport to try & gain a psychological advantage over a forward by "pulling his tail a bit". All the top players in team sports have to learn to rise above it & to Diarmuid's credit he has learned to do just that.
I'm sure he must be scratching his head, as I am, wondering what stone Roy Curtis has been living under these past years or is it, as I suspect, just a lazy piece of writing trying to get a reaction.
This sort of negative, overblown crap does more damage to the GAA than any few well chosen words in a forwards's ear.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/roy-curtis-darragh-s-reveals-the-sleeveen-culture-of-modern-gaelic-football-31341616.html
As an exercise in po faced, holier than thou, hand wringing, his is about as bad as it gets.
You would swear that it never occured to any defender in the history of sport to try & gain a psychological advantage over a forward by "pulling his tail a bit". All the top players in team sports have to learn to rise above it & to Diarmuid's credit he has learned to do just that.
I'm sure he must be scratching his head, as I am, wondering what stone Roy Curtis has been living under these past years or is it, as I suspect, just a lazy piece of writing trying to get a reaction.
This sort of negative, overblown crap does more damage to the GAA than any few well chosen words in a forwards's ear.