RTÉ GAA analyst Joe Brolly has reopened his war of words with Ireland international soccer player Stephen Hunt by claiming Hunt wouldn't last five minutes in an Ulster final.
Responding to claims from Brolly that soccer players are not role models, Hunt wrote an article in the Sunday Independent defending his profession and stating that GAA players would find life tough in Premier League.
The Ipswich Town midfielder then spoke to RTÉ defending his article and the charity work that professional soccer players do, claiming that amateur GAA players would struggle to cope with the training regime of a soccer pro'.
Those statements appear to have further raised the ire of Brolly, who hit back at Hunt in an interview with the Irish News.
"I don’t imagine Stephen would have lasted five minutes in the Ulster club final last Sunday. I wouldn’t fancy his chances standing on the edge of the square with Patsy Bradley," Brolly said.
"I was saying soccer players aren't role models – they are just soccer players. Ghandi may be a role model or Pope Francis but soccer players are only that.
"It never ceases to amuse me when you see these young fellas – many of whom have have spent their lives playing soccer at the expense of education and come from very strong working class backgrounds – being described as role models because they’re famous.
"If you look at that astounding application - lads putting their bodies on the line - and you think of someone like poor Stephen Hunt in the middle of that, it would be like Christians in the Colosseum - fed to the lions.”
The former Derry All Ireland winner added: "That Stephen Hunt article? All it does is make you think 'Thank f*** I'm a GAA man'."
