Patrick Horgan reckons that Cork manager Ben O’Connor has a point when he says that hurling could become too much like soccer, but he stresses that you can’t be too careful when it comes to head contact.
O’Connor told RTÉ Sport that too much is being made of some of the incidents, and that some players or managers were “roaring for red cards, yellow cards” for minor offences.
Last week, he was quoted saying that hurling was becoming too much like soccer, and that “the fellas above (are) trying to cleanse” the game.
On Saturday night, in a game that saw Cork’s Shane Barrett and Tipperary’s Jason Forde sent off for their part in a melee at the end of the first half, he held firm, saying: “That’s what the…