Marsden free to play following appeal against sending off

ARMAGH forward Diarmuid Marsden, controversially sent off by Brian White in the Bank of Ireland SFC final against Tyrone, will be free to play in next year’s opening round after having been exonerated by the Central Council at the weekend.

Marsden successfully appealed his month’s suspension, after earlier failing to have it overturned by the GAC, when delegates accepted the case made by Council delegate Gene Duffy and team manager Joe Kernan.

Marsden, who protested his innocence over the second half incident involving Tyrone defender Philip Jordan, insisted that his sole priority in lodging the appeal was ‘to clear his name.’