Your move Stephen
As you’ll know, since Stephen Hunt wrote over the weekend that GAA players ‘wouldn’t know what hit them‘ if they were professional footballers a row between GAA folk and Hunt has been brewing.
Many GAA players voiced their displeasure on Sunday with the comments and an appearance by Hunt on 2FM’s Game On did little to dampen down the flames in the GAA world.
The latest person to weigh in is Joe Brolly, who was interviewed in the Irish News today to address what Hunt had to say about life as a professional footballer.
“I don’t imagine Stephen would have lasted five minutes in the Ulster club final last Sunday. I wouldn’t fancy his chances standing on the edge of the square with Patsy Bradley,” said Brolly.
The Derry man went on to say that soccer players are ‘self interested’ before having a dig at them as role models.
“I was saying soccer players aren’t role models – they are just soccer players. Ghandi may be a role model or Pope Francis but soccer players are only that.
“It never ceases to amuse me when you see these young fellas – many of whom have have spent their lives playing soccer at the expense of education and come from very strong working class backgrounds – being described as role models because they’re famous.”
And Brolly finished with the most Brolly-an of quotes: “That Stephen Hunt article… all it does is make you think ‘Thank f*ck I’m a GAA man’.”
We’ve not heard the last of this…
