20/09/2014 Saturday Sportsday

Welcome to the BBC sports Centre, today we are looking at Gaelic

football. Ireland's biggest sport despite still being an amateur game.

And we will see whose prayers were answered in a very special game of

cricket. This is Saturday Sportsday. Let's take a look at some of today's

sporting headlines, we start with Formula One, Lewis Hamilton will be

looking to claw back more points from his Mercedes team-mate Nico

Rosberg. Qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix takes place in

just over an hours time and we will be there later on in the programme.

Saint Helens are the team through to the semifinals of the super league

play-offs after thrashing Castleford Tigers 1-0 last night. Today

Warrington play Widnes whilst Leeds take on Catalan Dragons. And police

are investigating the abuse Andy Murray received on social media

after declaring his support for the yes campaign at the Scottish

referendum. They have confirmed they will take action against those

involved. The pinnacle of the Gaelic football

season takes place tomorrow with the All-Ireland final at Croke Park

- between Donegal and Kerry. The players are household names

there, yet none of them are paid - despite the game's popularity both

in Ireland and now It has existed for over 130 years

but Gaelic football continues to grow. Tomorrow's all Ireland final

will be watched by a global audience of millions. But unlike other sports

and despite the money flowing into the game it remains strictly

amateur. This is Croke Park, home of 82,000 spectators but they are not

here to watch millionaire sports men, they are instead watching

teachers, bricklayers and students. Today they are superstars, tomorrow

they go back to work. In many respects Gaelic football is

professional, apart from the fact that the players are not paid. In

April they signed a multi-million pound worldwide television deal, the

governing body consisting 86% of all revenue goes back into new stadiums,

supporting clubs and grassroots. But it will not go into players pockets.

I think the FO 's is firmly amateur, there is no movement to change that.

In the next 100 years it will remain amateur. The key to this is the

culture of the sport, unlike football there are no transfers,

players can only play for the club and if good enough the county of

their birth. Ehrlich football is intrinsically entwined in Irish

life. You think of the most important thing in your life right

now, work, family, whatever. You double that and add some then you

get to the point of what Gaelic football means to people in this

country. You want to win for the guys you go to school with, the guys

you socialise with, I think if we added money, it would water down

what it means to us. And all Ireland winner with Armagh in 2002, today he

is coaching where it all started, back to his roots, routes he

believes will not blossom into professionalism. If the game goes

professional as it did with rugby that would be the death knell for

all clubs. It was the death knell for a rugby clubs in this country

and it would be the death knell for all clubs. The teams were at Wembley

giving London at taste of Gaelic football. Gaelic football has indeed

travelled along way from humble beginnings and even if you don't

quite understand the game you can't fail to grasp the Passion.

The rivalries in Gaelic football, like most sports,

go back for many years, but there's a fairly new one that's grabbing

Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will battle it out

The Singapore Grand Prix takes place tomorrow,

and qualifying gets underway in just over an hour's time.

Suzi Perry and David Coulthard are there for us.

Welcome to Singapore, all the action happening under floodlights as it is

an eight race against the stupendous Singapore cityscape. Six races to

go, what a prospect this weekend? This has become a Grassick Grand

Prix already on the calendar, -- classic. The battle between the

Mercedes drivers, a circuit which makes it Red Bull, Ferrari showing

pace, a lot of unanswered questions. Just 22 points separating Nico

Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, who has the momentum moving forward? Nico

Rosberg has been leading the championship for most of the year so

you have to say he has the momentum but you just feel Lewis Hamilton has

got that little bit of speed, Nico Rosberg is a great driver with great

intelligence but Lewis Hamilton on our role is someone that can be very

difficult to beat, it will be fascinating to watch. And double

points in Abu Dhabi as well. We have factories closing down on Mercedes

this weekend, teams that could take points away from both drivers, a

tantalising prospect and you can catch all of the best bets on BBC1

at five past 10pm. -- ten past five. Lewis Hamilton is known to pray

ahead of important races and plenty of sportsmen and women from time to

time wish God was on their side. And if ever there was

a match where that might actually be the case - it was yesterday

at Canturbury, as for the first time ever, the Church of England

played the Vatican at cricket. Our man Joe WIlson

was there to watch. Canterbury 's Cathedral, the mother

church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, a place of thought,

praise and utility. All of which are also frequently found at Canterbury

's cricket ground. Two teams united and abided by Christianity for this

was Vatican against Aberdeen, all players religious practitioners or

at least trainees. -- against Anglican. There is obligation to

take the umpire 's decision as final, to walk off or get on with

the game. No denominational -based sledging? We were joking, saying we

don't understand sledging so that is probably a good thing. We will play

in a good spirit today and enjoy it, but we will certainly play to win.

The Vatican elephant is made up almost entirely of South Asian

theological students who are training in Rome. It is, as they

say, a broad church. In their 20 overs the Vatican elephant made 106,

this match had been arranged to highlight the global effort to end

human trafficking and slave owning, I united front across faiths and

borders. But nobody forgot there was a match to win. 12 runs off the

penultimate over gave victory for the Archbishop 11. And who arrived

in time to see them do it? The man himself. It was a very good match, a

very good match, evenly balanced, it could have gone either way. Do you

think this could be a permanent fixture? A rematch in Rome? I see

this level we do it again. -- icy display hope we do this again.

Well Warwickshire could do with some divine intervention at Lord's -

battng first in the final of the One-Day Cup against Durham

You can get the latest on 5 live Sports Extra and

That's it from me and the Saturday Sportsday team.