Goalkeepers

IF there’s a word to describe Tom Brady’s infamous 2000 combine photograph, it would be shapeless.

A SCIENTIFIC study from 2019 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looked at the personality traits found in business entrepreneurs compared to their employees.

NIALL Morgan and Rory Beggan have revolutionised the role of gaelic football’s goalkeeper, and there’s more innovation to come from the pair.

IN the year that goalkeeping truly went mainstream, it was fitting that the best ‘keeper in Ireland was one of the bravest exponents of all the position’s suddenly-fashionable idiosyncrasies.

BEFORE the inter-county season concludes The Sunday Game is bound to put one of their exquisite montages together with accompanying music to Rory Beggan’s audacious piece of skill in Croke Park last weekend.

TYRONE goalkeeper Niall Morgan has hit out at the GAA’s rule-makers, claiming “Croke Park won’t be content until we are just lumping it out long between the midfielders”.

A BAN on passing the ball to goalkeepers in open play could be implemented without the need for a trial, GAA president John Horan has said.

ANTRIM netminder Chris Kerr and former Saffron and Ulster netminder Sean McGreevy will host a three-session GAA goalkeeping masterclass each Monday from May 28 through to June 11 at Woodlands 4G, Finaghy, Belfast from 7.

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