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Tomás Ó Sé
Opinion We have to let the game we all love breathe again
In the GAA, our knee-jerk response to a game tangled up in stoppages and frees has always been to blame the referee. It’s an age-old thing, a reflex as natural as sneezing. But referees, broadly, don’t get consulted about rules. They are simply cursed to implement them, irrespective of whether they consider them good law or bad.