Holland's head on a plate

We seem at last to be moving to a resolution of the strike by the Cork hurlers and footballers after football manager Teddy Holland’s head was delivered to the players on a plate.
Holland got caught in the crossfire in a battle, which effectively was between the Cork players and the county board.
Ironically players’ representatives will now sit down with the county board as they seek out a new manager and selectors for the county’s football team.
Teddy Holland revealed yesterday some of the hurt and the effect of the pressure piled up on him and his family over recent weeks.
He also fired off a parting salvo at a football team, which if they had faced Kerry with the same determination on the field over the last three years as they faced Teddy Holland and the county board off the field in recent weeks would be All-Ireland champions.
Holland reminded some of the Leesiders’ ‘stars’ that “last year's All-Ireland Final was the most chaotic, abject capitulation in the history of Cork football. It lacked all the qualities which I stand for and which I hope the players can learn in time.
"In their more honest moments, the players might reflect on their performances that day and use them as a motivation to drive them forward.”
The GAA’s accommodation of the ‘Rebels’ has been spineless as they bent over backwards to enable Cork to compete in this year’s national leagues despite their failures to field.
We will await with interest the decision on the next club or county side who falls foul of the rules of any other GAA competition to see will they be rewarded with the same generosity as the Cork teams.