Brian Gavin: Armagh-Galway melee the most major disciplinary matter in years

Those vicious, disgraceful scenes at the end of normal time in the Galway-Armagh All-Ireland quarter-final could so easily have been avoided

ALL-IN: Players and officials from both sides become embroiled as they make their way to the dressing rooms after full time ended in a draw at the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final match between Armagh and Galway at Croke Park, Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Readers of this column will know the practice of two teams leaving the field and going into the one tunnel at Croke Park is a bugbear of mine.

I’ve raised it three times here in the past. When there are dressing rooms on both sides of the pitch, in the interest of safety and avoiding flashpoints it makes sense for one group to tog out under the Hogan Stand and the other in the Cusack.