The Fogarty Forum: Don’t blame McGrath for applying the rules

The rulebook will have done nothing these past 36 hours to shield James McGrath from the torrent of abuse he’s received for sending off Pa Horgan on Sunday.

Some of it has gone far beyond the acceptable with his Westmeath heritage calling into question his pedigree as an inter-county referee.

However, he could wake up yesterday morning safe in the knowledge he applied a rule to the letter of the law.