A former inter-county manager who was part of a committee that devised the much maligned ‘black card’ has launched an astonishing attack on Jim McGuinness.
Eugene McGee, guided Offaly to an All-Ireland title in 1982 – but he hit back at McGuinness after his column in The Irish Times.
McGuinness wrote, “Eugene McGee, one of its architects, thinks it has cleaned up the game. In my opinion it has ruined the game.”
However, McGee hit back this evening, and said McGuinness thinks he is the high priest of football because he won one All-Ireland title – and mocked him for not winning more.
McGee said, “Jim McGuinness thinks because he won one All-Ireland he is the high priest of football and the Irish Times gives him space to expound on his theories.
“If he is that good, why didn’t he win a second All-Ireland or a third All-Ireland? So, I’m simply saying that the vast majority of people that I know are happy with the black card. It is a strange new rule and it has taken a long time to get used to it.”
