Football has had most of the problems but its solutions have often been universal
An umpire waves a red flag to signal a 2-point score, one of a number of rules enhancements now being trialled in football. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inphoused to protest that it was not afraid of change – even when such a claim was plainly risible. A quarter of the way through, this century has been different with an unimaginable rate of reform and experiment.
The hurling community may be getting a bit irritated by the unflagging focus on football this season but, as they are quick to remind others, one game has a lot of problems whereas the other doesn’t. “We are very open to looking at the hurling structure, very open. There are actually some good suggestions out there, it’s not for me to put them out here today, but if the hurling community – and this is really important to us – if they wish to look at their championship in terms of the number of games they have and so on then we’ll look at that.”
Eventually it was imported into hurling for the foul denial of a goal scoring opportunity. Such was the furore when James Owens applied the rule in the 2021 Tipperary-Clare Munster championship match that no referee did so again that summer.
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