It did, however, contrive to make global headlines, earning the defender the nickname "Llama" in honour of the South American camelid's prodigious ability for hurling projectiles manufactured from saliva.
He knew this in the rough and tumble of hurling, the world's fastest sport played on grass.
Whether they're trying to be the perfect mother by chucking cash at "health juice" or expensive swimwear, or trying to be the perfect wife by hurling it at a hairdo, underneath the ethics there is a woman very hard trying not to get everything wrong.
Godders "Eight pints" Bloom was exiled for hurling a Nazi jibe, and the leader, Nigel Farage, famously went verbal at EU president Herman Van Rompuy, accusing him of having "all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk".
As he walked along the touchline towards the dressing room a young spectator raced to the front of the stand and as well as hurling abuse, verbal and digital, at the Frenchman he appeared to throw something as well.
His new plays, Hurling Rubble at the Moon and Hurling Rubble at the Sun, which examine the parallels between extreme English nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism in a northern city, will premiere at the Park Theatre in London next month.
If you watch a top-class game of hurling, the speed, strength, dexterity and personal courage on display do remind you of warriors in the hurly-burly of war before armour and technology.
The other team opened fire and ran around to the vehicle entrance at the side of the building, hurling grenades.
