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However, British audiences have been brought to the game in recent years thanks to Sky’s controversial broadcasting of the All-Ireland championship and, in more recent years, the BBC showing both GAA finals each summer in the UK.<\/p>\n
Through those means, Gaelic football has seemingly found its way to Nicky Butt’s heart – though his ex-United teammate Paul Scholes was having absolutely none of it.<\/p>\n
READ HERE: Report: Ireland International To Be Joined By Teenage Brother At Championship Side<\/a><\/p>\n READ HERE: Ballon D’Or Winner Confident Czechia Can Overcome Ireland In World Cup Play-Off<\/a><\/p>\n Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt disagree on Gaelic football<\/p>\n Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes have been in hot water in recent weeks for their harsh criticism of the current squad at their former club Manchester United.<\/p>\n However, it was a far more light-hearted clip from their podcast The Good, The Bad & The Football that unexpectedly caught the attention of Irish viewers this week.<\/p>\n Nicky Butt is Gaelic football’s number 1 fan but Paul Scholes isn’t having any of it… \ud83e\udd23\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea pic.twitter.com\/2kcZxMC8BR<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 The Good, The Bad & The Football (@goodbadftblpod) January 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n To round out this week’s episode<\/a>, host Paddy McGuinness asked the pair to name their top five favourite sports to watch on the telly with a “pack of crisps and a pint of beer.”<\/p>\n Butt’s picks began with football, rugby, and UFC, before he revealed his love for Gaelic football – with Scholes and McGuinness refusing to believe him.<\/p>\n Butt: I like watching the Gaelic football actually.<\/p>\n Scholes:\u00a0Fuck off!<\/p>\n McGuinness:\u00a0This is a fucking random…<\/p>\n Butt:\u00a0I do!<\/p>\n McGuinness:\u00a0You’re not sitting down at home with a bag of crisps going, ‘Hey, let’s have a look at the Gaelic football!’<\/p>\n Scholes:\u00a0You’re watching Gaelic football? I’m sorry to all these Irish people but when’s it on telly, Gaelic football?<\/p>\n Butt:\u00a0It’s on Saturday mornings, so is Aussie Rules as well.<\/p>\n We’re not so sure what Saturday morning Gaelic football Nicky Butt has been watching, especially on British TV.<\/p>\n Scholes would go on to poke more holes in Butt’s alleged love of the GAA.<\/p>\n Scholes:\u00a0Name me a Gaelic football player.<\/p>\n Butt:\u00a0I don’t know any!<\/p>\n Scholes:\u00a0Name me a team.<\/p>\n Butt:\u00a0Waterford.<\/p>\n Scholes:\u00a0Waterford what?<\/p>\n Butt:\u00a0United.<\/p>\n We’re not sure exactly why Waterford were the first Gaelic football county to come to Nicky Butt’s mind, though he was clearly joking when he added a “United” to their name.<\/p>\n There was an Irish connection to Paul Scholes picks too.<\/p>\n Scholes plumped for football, golf, snooker, cricket, and darts, with an individual theme across four of the sports he chose.<\/p>\n He would reveal that Irish hero Rory McIlroy is the reason he continues to watch golf.<\/p>\n “The thing with those sports I’ve chosen…I have to see, it’s people who make me want to watch it,” Scholes said.<\/p>\n “So [Rory] McIlroy made me watch the golf. Maybe if he weren’t playing, I possibly wouldn’t. I’d still watch a lot of golf.<\/p>\n “[Ronnie] O’Sullivan with the snooker, [Luke] Littler with the darts, cricket with Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, and all the entertainment.”<\/p>\n Should he ever appear on\u00a0Stick to Football, we’d love to see Roy Keane interrogate Nicky Butt on his supposed love for our national sport.<\/p>\n SEE ALSO: Derry Club Pull Off Major Coup By Appointing All-Ireland Winning Manager<\/a><\/p>\n
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