Football

Cahair O’Kane: New rules incubating a sport whose environment was failing it

Galway’s slow, ponderous football last year would have earned them public humiliation if they’d been from Ulster. Twelve times in the All-Ireland final they kept the ball for more than a minute. Tyrone tried to play 2024 football in the Athletic Grounds on Saturday night and got ruthlessly punished by an Armagh team that ought to flourish in the new game.