Michael Murphy’s close call
All two-eyed observers surely agree that Michael Murphy should have been sent off on Sunday. If and when we manage to stick a recorder under his, you’d imagine there’s every chance he’ll cop to it himself.
He caught Dylan Casey twice, once with a swinging arms to the ribs and then with a close fist to the jaw. There’s no defending that – and no earthly reason anyone would want to.
Donegal manager Jim McGuinness deflected the question in the press conference afterwards, launching into a soliloquy about physicality and screening that had nothing to do with the incident itself. Murphy got a yellow card from David Gough, which is the worst of all worlds from a disciplinary point of view. The…