McCarthy chip off the old block

Four months on, James McCarthy still doesn’t know what he did wrong.

Attempting to shrug off Alan Freeman in the aborted league game in Castlebar, his elbow caught the Mayo forward’s face and that was enough for referee Marty Duffy to issue a red card.

Despite an appeal, the Ballymun Kickhams man picked up a one-match ban, a punishment which continues to puzzle him.