Hurling the loser when apologists rule

Trevor Hogan is a Tipperary man. His background is rugby. On those two counts, some may disqualify him from commenting on the defeat of his county but they shouldn’t.

Hurling the loser when apologists rule

On Sunday, he saw something in John Hanbury’s penalty foul tackle on Seamus Callanan he recognised from his own sport. The former Munster and Leinster second-row didn’t make use of rugby’s often bombastic lexicon to describe it, but he couldn’t believe it when Barry Kelly issued Hanbury with a caution.

“What a game,” he tweeted, attaching a photograph of the incident. “Galway were class. But can’t believe this only got a yellow card. A clear red, even in rugby.”

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