Pointless latching onto Canning ball-hop

What’s all this fuss about Joe Canning and what he said?

Pointless latching onto Canning ball-hop

Hysterical headlines aside, what was in it? So he claims that Henry Shefflin, in running after the referee to dispute a decision he didn’t agree with, was ‘unsportsmanlike’ — so what?

Remember the start of the Munster final replay of 1998, the shemozzle in midfield before the ball was thrown in? There was a great Clare character, Tom Mac, and what he said summed it up for me – “I often saw more pushing and shoving coming out after first mass in Crusheen!”

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