Ronan McCarthy, Cork Senior Football manager. Cork manager Ronan McCarthy has criticised the second-rate structuring of the 2020 All-Ireland football championship, describing as unacceptable that football teams must make do with a straight knockout format whereas the hurling championship will have a backdoor. The justification that there are too many teams in football is no justification at all,” McCarthy told the Irish Examiner. “You had a situation where there was a backdoor in U20 hurling, whereas there was no backdoor in U20 football. It has become almost acceptable to treat football and the football championship poorly, and the only grounds for that seems to be that there are more teams.

Source: Irish Examiner June 28, 2020 18:00 UTC